---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Newburyport to continue the employment of police officer Charles Vorderis"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Newburyport to continue the employment of police officer Charles Vorderis"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4871"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4871 (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: "2022-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8645547a-0f78-44a6-8186-8a6e9a24d4b1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4871"
source_hash: "03aba8835c79fd6135d74e18ebdf86f727b0c266564c859d10861a40decee202"
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 4871 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Newburyport to continue the employment of police officer Charles Vorderis

## 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/H4871.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Diana DiZoglio — cosponsor (person)
- James M. Kelcourse — 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 H4767
- **2022-06-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-07-05** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-18** Rules suspedned
- **2022-07-18** 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
- **2022-10-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, 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 265 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 265 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/8645547a-0f78-44a6-8186-8a6e9a24d4b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).