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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting all positions in the Police Department of the town of Rockport from the civil service law"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2360) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt all positions in the Police Department of the town of Rockport from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2360"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2360 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-10-03"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e93c735c-d706-4b5f-9590-7b38e0f915ce"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2360"
source_hash: "46122b0bb72b40adf63a4c488ca8c5d91b8d97e48fd4961934ed387d9425c757"
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 2360 (191st) — An Act exempting all positions in the Police Department of the town of Rockport from the civil service law
By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2360) of Bruce E. Tarr and Ann-Margaret Ferrante (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt all positions in the Police Department of the town of Rockport from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
## 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/191/S2360.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Ann-Margaret Ferrante — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-10-03** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-07** House concurred
- **2019-10-11** Hearing scheduled for 10/21/2019 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1
- **2020-01-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-01-16** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-01-21** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2020-02-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 41 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e93c735c-d706-4b5f-9590-7b38e0f915ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).