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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Rockland"
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description: "Senate, November 13, 2025 -- The committee on Municipalities and Regional Government to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2573) of John F. Keenan (by vote of the town) to amend the charter of the town of Rockland, report the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2716)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "194th"
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identifier: "S 2716"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 2716 (194th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2025-11-13"
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last_action: "2026-02-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16e3d16f-ef59-4f71-9e29-7d2f598cbddc"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2716"
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source_hash: "de907d3f2ae0bf1fd2726d503a9abfa4340c9a28b6f7a7045e1cccca4066c5c7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts S 2716 (194th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Rockland
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Senate, November 13, 2025 -- The committee on Municipalities and Regional Government to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2573) of John F. Keenan (by vote of the town) to amend the charter of the town of Rockland, report the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2716).
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2716.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government — primary (organization)
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- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)
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- John F. Keenan — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-11-13** Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
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- **2025-11-13** New draft of S2573
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- **2025-11-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-11-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2025-11-19** Read second, amended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
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- **2025-11-19** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
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- **2025-11-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2025-11-20** Rules suspended
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- **2025-11-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-12-18** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H4866) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-01-29** Rules suspended
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- **2026-01-29** Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment, see S2932
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- **2026-02-02** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-09** House concurred in the Senate further amendment
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- **2026-02-11** Enacted `passage`
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- **2026-02-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2026-02-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 30 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16e3d16f-ef59-4f71-9e29-7d2f598cbddc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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