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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Amherst to hold a special election on November 6, 2018"
+description: "By Representative Goldstein-Rose of Amherst and Senator Rosenberg, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4482) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose and Stanley C. Rosenberg (by vote of the town) that the city known as the town of Amherst be authorized to hold a special election on November 6, 2018. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
+legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
+session: "190th"
+identifier: "H 4482"
+citation: "Massachusetts H 4482 (190th)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2018-05-09"
+last_action: "2018-06-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daab5b5b-d68a-4204-82c1-4e9fc4801628"
+source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4482"
+source_hash: "8ee26e124aa352ee6b02063a66cf8083bcbfccbd68168a5eeb605bd86578fe06"
+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 4482 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Amherst to hold a special election on November 6, 2018
+
+By Representative Goldstein-Rose of Amherst and Senator Rosenberg, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4482) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose and Stanley C. Rosenberg (by vote of the town) that the city known as the town of Amherst be authorized to hold a special election on November 6, 2018. Election Laws. [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/H4482.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Solomon Goldstein-Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanley C. Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-05-09** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-10** Senate concurred
+- **2018-05-25** Hearing scheduled for 05/30/2018 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
+- **2018-05-25** Hearing scheduled for 05/31/2018 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
+- **2018-05-29** Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
+- **2018-06-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
+- **2018-06-11** Rules suspended
+- **2018-06-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
+- **2018-06-20** Rules suspended
+- **2018-06-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
+- **2018-06-20** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
+- **2018-06-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
+- **2018-06-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2018-06-25** Enacted `passage`
+- **2018-06-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
+- **2018-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daab5b5b-d68a-4204-82c1-4e9fc4801628`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
+