---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing a charter for the city of Melrose"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4102). May 3, 2018."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4464"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4464 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec1c5cb3-431a-48cb-9b02-02963140cec8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4464"
source_hash: "1667b663e0848bc1625796f2c405223219bc23a3d5b844ff4f7003d7e254c777"
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 4464 (190th) — An Act providing a charter for the city of Melrose

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4102). May 3, 2018.

## 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/H4464.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** Substituted for H4102
- **2018-05-03** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-05-07** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-05-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-10-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-10-04** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2018-10-04** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2667 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-10-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-10-09** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-10-22** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-10-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-11-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 286 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/ec1c5cb3-431a-48cb-9b02-02963140cec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).