---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Leyden to continue the employment of Gilda Galvis"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3986). March 5, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4544"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4544 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-03-05"
last_action: "2020-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62ba5c8f-cb82-42ad-9c96-5f27b33ed74d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4544"
source_hash: "0e8813ce18503537a9980732d379bd6babb11e294b05111fe97bb112c42e7a10"
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 4544 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Leyden to continue the employment of Gilda Galvis

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3986). March 5, 2020.

## 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/H4544.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-05** Substituted for H3986
- **2020-03-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-03-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-06-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-06-04** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 100 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/62ba5c8f-cb82-42ad-9c96-5f27b33ed74d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).