---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Leominster to pay a certain unpaid bill"
description: "By Ms. Higgins of Leominster, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1795) of Natalie M. Higgins (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Leominster be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 1795"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1795 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Natalie M. Higgins"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d33efd5-a096-492c-9b73-d41b9d2d093f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H1795"
source_hash: "bc013d5a40ec5f017f1430f7831dd1ff53a5a7cc513132546cbbc28089c3ca05"
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 1795 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city of Leominster to pay a certain unpaid bill

By Ms. Higgins of Leominster, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1795) of Natalie M. Higgins (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Leominster be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/191/H1795.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Natalie M. Higgins — primary (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Senate concurred
- **2019-04-01** Hearing scheduled for 04/09/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2019-04-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-09** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-06-24** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-07-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-07-18** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-07-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-07-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-07-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d33efd5-a096-492c-9b73-d41b9d2d093f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).