---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the department of public works in the town of Westborough"
description: "By Miss Gregoire of Marlborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3918) of Danielle W. Gregoire and others (by vote of the town) relative to a department of public works in the town of Westborough. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3918"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3918 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Danielle W. Gregoire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-28"
last_action: "2022-12-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8751b8d-8f0e-4844-8bfe-f55777ad95d4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3918"
source_hash: "fad2924eaad752a1336297fc85857687733cdd9127cba20d68aace22853500e5"
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 3918 (192nd) — An Act relative to the department of public works in the town of Westborough

By Miss Gregoire of Marlborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3918) of Danielle W. Gregoire and others (by vote of the town) relative to a department of public works in the town of Westborough. 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/192/H3918.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Danielle W. Gregoire — primary (person)
- Carolyn C. Dykema — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-28** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-01** Senate concurred
- **2021-09-03** Hearing scheduled for 09/14/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-09-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-10-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-10-07** Rules suspended
- **2021-10-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-10-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-10-25** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-11-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-12-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-12-08** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-12-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 304 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8751b8d-8f0e-4844-8bfe-f55777ad95d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).