---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District to continue the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski"
description: "By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Stephen Kulik relative to the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski by the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3957"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3957 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephen Kulik"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-09-25"
last_action: "2018-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/def2eccc-5578-44d3-aa67-84926ea83329"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3957"
source_hash: "65418305d09bb72a4767e6fec1c4beea0d2ec8ec9f367493fbd66e8ff6ef161d"
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 3957 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District to continue the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski

By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Stephen Kulik relative to the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski by the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District. Public Service.

## 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/H3957.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Stephen Kulik — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-09-25** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-12** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-16** Senate concurred
- **2017-11-03** Hearing scheduled for 11/07/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-2
- **2017-12-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-12-11** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-01-11** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-01-25** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-25** Read second, amended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-12** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-03-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 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/def2eccc-5578-44d3-aa67-84926ea83329`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).