---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton"
description: "By Mr. Carey of Easthampton, a petition of Daniel R. Carey (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3981"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3981 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel R. Carey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-27"
last_action: "2022-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23158c56-0fff-441d-85df-259273b3d863"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3981"
source_hash: "bc393a56a7b82cecb42ded81c1b80eea89db99f608b3349ae3ea14158b333708"
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 3981 (192nd) — An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton

By Mr. Carey of Easthampton, a petition of Daniel R. Carey (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. Municipalities and Regional Government.

## 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/H3981.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Daniel R. Carey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-27** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-19** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-21** 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`
- **2021-10-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-10-14** Rules suspended
- **2021-10-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-14** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-03-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-03-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-13** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-06-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-06-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 95 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/23158c56-0fff-441d-85df-259273b3d863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).