---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Middlefield to continue the employment of Fire Chief Ronald Radwich"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Middlefield to continue the employment of Fire Chief Ronald Radwich"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4717"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4717 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-04-21"
last_action: "2022-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b846ee5f-5b19-40b4-a37b-0bb321ae8a0d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4717"
source_hash: "508e5a86e06eca4b6c09d7ab495b2897edcc5ad3f0d21834fa3797b008e9a0cd"
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 4717 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Middlefield to continue the employment of Fire Chief Ronald Radwich

## 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/H4717.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-21** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2022-04-21** New draft of H4535
- **2022-04-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-05-05** Rules suspended
- **2022-05-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 264 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/b846ee5f-5b19-40b4-a37b-0bb321ae8a0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).