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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Tewksbury"
description: "By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1446) of Barry R. Finegold and Tram T. Nguyen (by the vote of the town) for legislation relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Tewksbury. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 1446"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1446 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry R. Finegold"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2026-06-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11702774-d8f9-42fb-9cc5-1503fc61593d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1446"
source_hash: "5d664729e48db5eb72650e78c5f91766f4dc0901ed8461fa6f1e3defc33b0489"
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 1446 (194th) — An Act relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Tewksbury
By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1446) of Barry R. Finegold and Tram T. Nguyen (by the vote of the town) for legislation relative to the residency requirement for the town manager of the town of Tewksbury. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/194/S1446.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Barry R. Finegold — primary (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** House concurred
- **2025-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-06-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-18** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-04-13** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 91 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/11702774-d8f9-42fb-9cc5-1503fc61593d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).