---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Whately to continue the employment of John Lasalle as a call firefighter"
description: "By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3791) of Stephen Kulik (by vote of the town) that the town of Whately be authorized to continue the employment of John Lasalle as a call firefighter. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3791"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3791 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen Kulik"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-03"
last_action: "2017-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f836a8fe-392a-4898-8e1a-1602cefb3d3d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3791"
source_hash: "caf6cc359e456b31ec04392283bfc083dc0bb1239b483bbc2d0060cec27eb10e"
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 3791 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Whately to continue the employment of John Lasalle as a call firefighter

By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3791) of Stephen Kulik (by vote of the town) that the town of Whately be authorized to continue the employment of John Lasalle as a call firefighter. 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/H3791.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Stephen Kulik — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-07-03** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** Senate concurred
- **2017-07-07** Hearing scheduled for 07/13/2017 from 02:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-2
- **2017-07-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-03** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-14** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-10-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-10-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-10-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-10-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 99 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/f836a8fe-392a-4898-8e1a-1602cefb3d3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).