---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Canton"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3971) [Local Approval Received]. June 2, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4838"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4838 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-02"
last_action: "2022-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6ea1b01-c00f-412a-926b-5da8cb2daecc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4838"
source_hash: "82df7ace16fc8915bbbaa53263584c356a9de6205e38dd5837bf5109939c9990"
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 4838 (192nd) — An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers in the town of Canton

Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3971) [Local Approval Received]. June 2, 2022.

## 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/H4838.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-02** Substituted for H3971
- **2022-06-02** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-06-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-06** Governor returned to the House with an amendment
- **2022-07-07** For message, see H4984
- **2022-07-07** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-13** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-13** Bills in the Third Reading Special report accepted
- **2022-07-13** Governor's amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading)
- **2022-07-13** Governor's amendment adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-21** Governor's amendment adopted, in concurrence `amendment-passage`
- **2022-07-21** Re-enacted
- **2022-07-21** Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
- **2022-07-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 121 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/c6ea1b01-c00f-412a-926b-5da8cb2daecc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).