---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a select board in the town of Bolton"
description: "By Representative Hogan of Stow and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4198) of Kate Hogan and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) relative to establishing a select board in the town of Bolton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4198"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4198 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-12"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5517d8dd-0aba-44ea-8c71-bcb4d5718b1c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4198"
source_hash: "3039e5145e15534430852d1cc47507b238791e52f219a9a86868ce46f6b893c1"
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 4198 (192nd) — An Act establishing a select board in the town of Bolton

By Representative Hogan of Stow and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4198) of Kate Hogan and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) relative to establishing a select board in the town of Bolton. 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/H4198.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Hogan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-12** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-14** Senate concurred
- **2021-11-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-11-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-27** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-05-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-05-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 70 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/5517d8dd-0aba-44ea-8c71-bcb4d5718b1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).