---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Chelmsford"
description: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Chelmsford"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4243"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4243 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdc04f56-d8c3-4331-a372-57ba627ed506"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4243"
source_hash: "7d3180c5f0bedf24391f795cfb43c3c64820bcdaa7671f322816532ccba485e5"
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 4243 (190th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Chelmsford

## 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/H4243.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** Substituted for H4071 and H4124
- **2018-02-15** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-02-20** Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-03-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-04-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-04-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 76 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/fdc04f56-d8c3-4331-a372-57ba627ed506`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).