---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Amherst to continue the employment of Walter (Tim) Nelson"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Amherst to continue the employment of Walter (Tim) Nelson"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4593"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4593 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-04-04"
last_action: "2022-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67e18621-908a-4f27-b136-01b8df0c352b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4593"
source_hash: "f6810c24a27a1196e27e5bcf0b1c20006d52cbdd25c10900c52537da3b6d843f"
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 4593 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Amherst to continue the employment of Walter (Tim) Nelson

## 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/H4593.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-04** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2022-04-04** New draft of H4356
- **2022-04-04** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-04-14** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-04-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-04-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-04-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 52 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/67e18621-908a-4f27-b136-01b8df0c352b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).