---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act funding the town of Hanover's Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund"
description: "By Mr. DeCoste of Norwell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4061) of David F. DeCoste (by vote of the town) that the town of Hanover be authorized to fund the other post-employment benefits liability trust fund in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4061"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4061 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David F. DeCoste"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-08-29"
last_action: "2020-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6887be37-036e-4036-bf32-8db9361f0959"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4061"
source_hash: "05daa97d6c7166e90a4cd1137c86ad36ebdd44808adea73a360ba685ccb4da15"
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 4061 (191st) — An Act funding the town of Hanover's Other Post Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund

By Mr. DeCoste of Norwell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4061) of David F. DeCoste (by vote of the town) that the town of Hanover be authorized to fund the other post-employment benefits liability trust fund in said town. 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/H4061.pdf)

## Sponsors

- David F. DeCoste — primary (person)
- David F. DeCoste — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-29** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-03** Senate concurred
- **2019-10-07** Hearing scheduled for 10/15/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2019-10-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-21** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-11-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-03-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-03-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 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/6887be37-036e-4036-bf32-8db9361f0959`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).