---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the office of Mayor in the city of Boston"
description: "By Ms. Tyler of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 67) of Chynah Tyler and Martin J. Walsh (with the approval of mayor and city council) relative to a special municipal election for a vacancy in the office of Mayor in the city of Boston. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 67"
citation: "Massachusetts H 67 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chynah Tyler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-22"
last_action: "2021-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5adbc295-b0dd-475a-bf4d-81962df44e1d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H67"
source_hash: "1b5aaa8e53c85b725d1e1b0a997d904f2bd34022c57626995e7fd71a9e01ba85"
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 67 (192nd) — An Act relative to the office of Mayor in the city of Boston

By Ms. Tyler of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 67) of Chynah Tyler and Martin J. Walsh (with the approval of mayor and city council) relative to a special municipal election for a vacancy in the office of Mayor in the city of Boston. [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/H67.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chynah Tyler — primary (person)
- Martin J. Walsh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2021-02-22** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Reported from the committee on House Rules
- **2021-02-22** Committee recommended ought to pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** Rules suspended
- **2021-02-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-02-25** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-02-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 3 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5adbc295-b0dd-475a-bf4d-81962df44e1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).