---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to incumbent town meeting members in the town of Burlington"
description: "By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4765) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) relative to incumbent town meeting members in the town of Burlington. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4765"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4765 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-05-09"
last_action: "2022-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc6b2dc2-b230-4865-a724-aa2b52b2d94a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4765"
source_hash: "c87f0ef66f216611b2fe2b27850d6994aa6a122cc47f782d9af430126d22a971"
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 4765 (192nd) — An Act relative to incumbent town meeting members in the town of Burlington

By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4765) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) relative to incumbent town meeting members in the town of Burlington. Election Laws. [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/H4765.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-05-09** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-12** Senate concurred
- **2022-05-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-06-15** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** 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`
- **2022-08-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-11** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 192 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/bc6b2dc2-b230-4865-a724-aa2b52b2d94a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).