---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a certain retirement benefit to be paid to the surviving spouse of fallen officer, Michael Chesna, of the Weymouth Police Department"
description: "An Act relative to a certain retirement benefit to be paid to the surviving spouse of fallen officer, Michael Chesna, of the Weymouth Police Department"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4928"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4928 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James M. Murphy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-10-11"
last_action: "2018-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26258d0a-80e3-4f46-ba2e-5be1939500ae"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4928"
source_hash: "39f905698a82d83e40befd5d4a8d08ada75eb9d3f5d25c3dc21d36cc08caa1fa"
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 4928 (190th) — An Act relative to a certain retirement benefit to be paid to the surviving spouse of fallen officer, Michael Chesna, of the Weymouth Police Department

## 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/H4928.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James M. Murphy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-11** Substituted for H4915
- **2018-10-11** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-10-18** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-11-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-11-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-11-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-11-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-11-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 289 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/26258d0a-80e3-4f46-ba2e-5be1939500ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).