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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Taunton to contract for the renewal of services relative to the operation and maintenance of its wastewater treatment plant, sewers and pump stations, for a term not to exceed five years"
description: "By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2705) of Marc R. Pacheco, Carol A. Doherty, Patricia A. Haddad and Norman J. Orrall (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Taunton to contract for the renewal of services relative to the operation and maintenance of its wastewater treatment plant, sewers and pump stations, for a term not to exceed five years. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2705"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2705 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c184f4b-775f-49e7-83fe-e2d9844a2299"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2705"
source_hash: "8a2c9f3c6ecc0d880391d4c99c7bbf135ea68eaf9483fe2167da090689430cc3"
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 2705 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Taunton to contract for the renewal of services relative to the operation and maintenance of its wastewater treatment plant, sewers and pump stations, for a term not to exceed five years
By Mr. Pacheco, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2705) of Marc R. Pacheco, Carol A. Doherty, Patricia A. Haddad and Norman J. Orrall (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Taunton to contract for the renewal of services relative to the operation and maintenance of its wastewater treatment plant, sewers and pump stations, for a term not to exceed five years. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. [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/192/S2705.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-17** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** House concurred
- **2022-03-03** Hearing scheduled for 03/08/2022 from 02:00 PM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-05-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-06-09** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 105 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c184f4b-775f-49e7-83fe-e2d9844a2299`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).