---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the authorities of municipal light boards"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3869). September 12, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4069"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4069 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-09-12"
last_action: "2020-02-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f61389a-0311-4654-893d-c49a11c53732"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4069"
source_hash: "7dcc040f2ab5ebdb9576a430e878f332090d63e965adda309c0ec74c7174175d"
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 4069 (191st) — An Act relative to the authorities of municipal light boards

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3869). September 12, 2019.

## 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/H4069.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-12** Substituted for H3869
- **2019-09-12** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2019-09-16** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-12-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-12-04** Rules suspended
- **2019-12-04** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-12-05** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-12-06** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2019-12-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-12-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-12-17** Governor returned to the House with recommendation of amendment
- **2019-12-19** For message, see H4253
- **2019-12-19** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
- **2020-01-06** Governors amendment adopted (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading) `amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-06** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-06** Governor's amendment adopted, in concurrence `amendment-passage`
- **2020-02-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-02-10** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-02-10** Re-enacted
- **2020-02-10** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2020-02-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 24 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/3f61389a-0311-4654-893d-c49a11c53732`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).