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H2268 • 2025

An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend

An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Dennis C. Gallagher
Last action
2026-02-12
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend

An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend By Representative Gallagher of Bridgewater, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend By Representative Gallagher of Bridgewater, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2268) of Dennis C.
  • Gallagher (by vote of the town) relative to the annual stipend of the town council of the town of Bridgewater.
  • Municipalities and Regional Government.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-12 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2026

  2. 2026-02-09 House

    Enacted

  3. 2026-02-09 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2026-02-05 Senate

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  5. 2026-02-05 Senate

    Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed

  6. 2025-10-02 Senate

    Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading

  7. 2025-09-29 House

    Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed

  8. 2025-07-23 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  9. 2025-07-23 House

    Rules suspended

  10. 2025-07-23 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  11. 2025-07-10 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  12. 2025-05-05 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1

  13. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

  14. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend
By Representative Gallagher of Bridgewater, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2268) of Dennis C. Gallagher (by vote of the town) relative to the annual stipend of the town council of the town of Bridgewater. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

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Bill H.2268

Ordered that The Town Charter, Article II, Legislative Branch Section 2-13 (a) Annual Stipend shall be amended to reflect that each member of the Town Council shall receive and annual stipend, payable in arrears, in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) and the Town Council President shall receive an annual stipend, payable in arrears, in the amount of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500). Incumbent Councilors shall receive a stipend as above set forth as of each annual Town Election Day. A Councilor who vacates their office will be entitled to receive a pro-rated stipend as of the last date of their service. Regardless of compensation, members of the Town Council shall not be eligible for benefits from the Town. Any modification of the stipend amounts set-forth herein may be adopted by ordinance duly adopted by the Town Council, provided however that no increase or reduction in such stipends shall take effect during the year in which such increase or reduction is voted, and no change in such ordinance shall be made between the election of a new council and the qualification of the new council. Persons elected to serve as councilors by special town election or appointment shall be eligible for payment of an annual stipend payable in arrears in the amount of $5,000 reduced on a pro-rated basis commensurate with the number of days beginning with the date of the special election or appointment. Such ordinance shall be subject to the provisions of MGL Chapter 39, Section 6A.

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