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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting the position of police chief in the town of Barnstable from the civil service law"
description: "By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2746) of Julian Cyr, Kip A. Diggs and Steven George Xiarhos (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt the position of police chief in the town of Barnstable from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2746"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2746 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julian Cyr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-25"
last_action: "2024-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2375c4cf-8d3d-482b-9576-7dc104dc4a8d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2746"
source_hash: "0beb23ad6c6529cab11601c3ea1207702809715d299227665df520d857cca5f7"
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 2746 (193rd) — An Act exempting the position of police chief in the town of Barnstable from the civil service law
By Mr. Cyr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2746) of Julian Cyr, Kip A. Diggs and Steven George Xiarhos (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt the position of police chief in the town of Barnstable 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/193/S2746.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Julian Cyr — primary (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-04-25** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** House concurred
- **2024-05-10** Hearing scheduled for 05/14/2024 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2024-06-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-08-20** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-09-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-09-19** Rules suspended
- **2024-09-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-10-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-10-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-10-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 227 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2375c4cf-8d3d-482b-9576-7dc104dc4a8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).