---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the special act charter of the city of Northampton"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2202) [Local Approval Received]. July 26, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3995"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3995 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-26"
last_action: "2021-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2cb0f53-72d0-47d7-8c9c-2c354f677b4f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3995"
source_hash: "98b67a155e35c559bf39b9ab2ccdcb70e95a24c8095e599afa88398dd55b6bcf"
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 3995 (192nd) — An Act amending the special act charter of the city of Northampton

Substituted by the House, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2202) [Local Approval Received]. July 26, 2021.

## 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/H3995.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-26** Substituted for H2202
- **2021-07-26** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-07-29** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-08-09** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2021-08-09** Amended (Comerford) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in the place thereof the text of S2510 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-08-09** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-08-12** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-12** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2021-08-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-08-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-08-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2cb0f53-72d0-47d7-8c9c-2c354f677b4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).