---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a department of municipal finance in the town of Dennis"
description: "By Representative Whelan of Brewster and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3635) of Timothy R. Whelan and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Dennis be authorized to establish a department of municipal finance. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3635"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3635 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-27"
last_action: "2020-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d60bc66b-923c-4d8e-8880-dce251c19c68"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3635"
source_hash: "ac5480a0b61055db6351f3b824f21994912f95c9b1424bc93e84e3eda8375c4a"
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 3635 (191st) — An Act establishing a department of municipal finance in the town of Dennis

By Representative Whelan of Brewster and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3635) of Timothy R. Whelan and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Dennis be authorized to establish a department of municipal finance. 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/H3635.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Senate concurred
- **2019-07-23** Hearing scheduled for 07/30/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
- **2019-08-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-08-05** Rules suspended
- **2019-08-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-01-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d60bc66b-923c-4d8e-8880-dce251c19c68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).