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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Sandwich"
description: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Sandwich"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 2859"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2859 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-12-11"
last_action: "2026-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ed9cf8e-9abc-42ca-9f81-65ce9e272a5d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2859"
source_hash: "03e045fec53aa1ace930fb9fe83c1cbb9c79ba4a89f979faab307149b747c46c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts S 2859 (194th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Sandwich
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2859.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading — primary (organization)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-11** Reported from the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
- **2025-12-11** Recommended new draft for S24
- **2025-12-11** Substituted as a new draft for S24
- **2025-12-11** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-12-15** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-18** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2025-12-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-12-18** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-06** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-06** Senate concurs on the House amendment
- **2026-04-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-08** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-04-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 64 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ed9cf8e-9abc-42ca-9f81-65ce9e272a5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).