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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act confirming the classification of Lawrence police patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr.’s death on February 12, 1972, as killed in the line of duty providing any additional or retroactive benefits to his survivors as a result of the confirmation of the classification"
+description: "By Mr. Moran of Lawrence, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3843) of Frank A. Moran and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the death of patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr., of the city of Lawrence police department. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "190th"
+identifier: "H 3843"
+citation: "Massachusetts H 3843 (190th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frank A. Moran"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2017-07-26"
+last_action: "2017-12-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db99fa79-bc8d-4cdd-98a1-93d3f7022b71"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3843"
+source_hash: "df208f11f476ff312c3e23ccf4cce7f80f6e38f0ce77c33ae025b28da2e0b2ca"
+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 H 3843 (190th) — An Act confirming the classification of Lawrence police patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr.’s death on February 12, 1972, as killed in the line of duty providing any additional or retroactive benefits to his survivors as a result of the confirmation of the classification
+
+By Mr. Moran of Lawrence, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3843) of Frank A. Moran and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the death of patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr., of the city of Lawrence police department. 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/190/H3843.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frank A. Moran — primary (person)
+- Bryan DePena — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel Rivera (mayor) — cosponsor (person)
+- David Abdoo — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeovanny Rodreguez — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendrys Vasquez — cosponsor (person)
+- Marc Laplante — cosponsor (person)
+- Modesto Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
+- Myra Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
+- Nilka Alvarez-Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-07-26** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-27** Senate concurred
+- **2017-09-13** Hearing scheduled for 09/19/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in 222
+- **2017-10-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-10-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
+- **2017-10-19** Rules suspended
+- **2017-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-11-06** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2017-11-08** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
+- **2017-11-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
+- **2017-11-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2017-11-30** Enacted `passage`
+- **2017-11-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
+- **2017-12-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 144 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/db99fa79-bc8d-4cdd-98a1-93d3f7022b71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+