---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the classification of certain employees of the South Essex Sewerage District"
description: "By Mr. Tucker of Salem, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Tucker relative to the classification of certain employees of the South Essex Sewerage District for retirement purposes. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4253"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4253 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Tucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-02"
last_action: "2018-08-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02ef5eae-6814-458e-87bc-916a64eb94bc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4253"
source_hash: "90534cbf36bcc879579d3f178f395d4a4215488de21d7429787efbb6dfac13c7"
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 4253 (190th) — An Act relative to the classification of certain employees of the South Essex Sewerage District

By Mr. Tucker of Salem, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul Tucker relative to the classification of certain employees of the South Essex Sewerage District for retirement purposes. 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/H4253.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul Tucker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-02** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Senate concurred
- **2018-03-19** Hearing scheduled for 03/20/2018 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in B-1
- **2018-04-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-19** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-25** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-07-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-09** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 221 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/02ef5eae-6814-458e-87bc-916a64eb94bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).