---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the appointment of special police officers in the city of Fall River"
description: "An Act relative to the appointment of special police officers in the city of Fall River"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4870"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4870 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-06-15"
last_action: "2022-08-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d00c88f4-84e3-4768-8114-2ffc9d354a12"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4870"
source_hash: "f7829066cf5cf057838751fa40dc6de6d29092e3694dac78ad0c9b56abf81888"
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 4870 (192nd) — An Act relative to the appointment of special police officers in the city of Fall River

## 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/H4870.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-06-15** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2022-06-15** New draft of H4766
- **2022-06-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-06-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-21** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-21** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 168 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 168 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/d00c88f4-84e3-4768-8114-2ffc9d354a12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).