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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the appointment of special police officers in the city of Brockton"
description: "Senate, August 3, 2017 -- Substituted as new draft (Senator Brady) for the Senate Bill to further define the appointment of special police officers in the city of Brockton (Senate, No. 2040)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2138"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2138 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael D. Brady"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-08-03"
last_action: "2017-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68d5f84a-acf0-4ac1-8156-e099b7350b84"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2138"
source_hash: "5823fbcc4c3a1a1d0212a7e41025bb32b3ef1ca333d522e6b29dcfb01e323db7"
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 2138 (190th) — An Act authorizing the appointment of special police officers in the city of Brockton
Senate, August 3, 2017 -- Substituted as new draft (Senator Brady) for the Senate Bill to further define the appointment of special police officers in the city of Brockton (Senate, No. 2040).
## 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/190/S2138.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael D. Brady — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-08-03** Recommended new draft (Brady) for S2040
- **2017-08-03** Substituted for S2040
- **2017-08-03** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2017-08-07** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-17** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-14** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-09-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 82 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68d5f84a-acf0-4ac1-8156-e099b7350b84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).