---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the results of the special town meeting held on September 14, 2021 and the special election held on September 21, 2021 in the town of Leicester"
description: "An Act validating the results of the special town meeting held on September 14, 2021 and the special election held on September 21, 2021 in the town of Leicester"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4211"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4211 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-20"
last_action: "2021-11-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b373549-71a2-4f6a-8362-292c280f979a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4211"
source_hash: "f2d531f2771d205a9889532004d1ca9286a4c61700ba951f953c206b8425a7a4"
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 4211 (192nd) — An Act validating the results of the special town meeting held on September 14, 2021 and the special election held on September 21, 2021 in the town of Leicester

## 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/H4211.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-20** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-21** Senate concurred
- **2021-10-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-11-04** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-11-10** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-11-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-11-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-11-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 87 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/4b373549-71a2-4f6a-8362-292c280f979a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).