---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the retirement board of the city of Salem to retire Brian Benson, a police officer of the city of Salem"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4144). April 6, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4621"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4621 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-06"
last_action: "2020-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46a71f53-133c-4833-ad0c-9f5d632b34c9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4621"
source_hash: "54c5fc3d55dcb811b2d07210f48dfa3659bc7b1957f7ba3172a18802f7856327"
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 4621 (191st) — An Act authorizing the retirement board of the city of Salem to retire Brian Benson, a police officer of the city of Salem

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4144). April 6, 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/H4621.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Public Service — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-04-06** Substituted for H4144
- **2020-04-06** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-04-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-06-01** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-02** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-02** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2020-07-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-07-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 117 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/46a71f53-133c-4833-ad0c-9f5d632b34c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).