---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act revoking the town of Longmeadow’s acceptance of a certain general law establishing a board of election commissioners"
description: "By Representative Ashe of Longmeadow and Senator Lesser, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 94) of Brian M. Ashe and Eric P. Lesser (by vote of the town) for legislation to revoke the acceptance of a certain General Law establishing a board of election commissioners in the town of Longmeadow. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 94"
citation: "Massachusetts H 94 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-22"
last_action: "2021-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f8ef67d-98b7-44e4-b4c3-ccf5c9494852"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H94"
source_hash: "605f462a58310084902d0d15cca8971ac16dbe6190a3b4a2d13a9e5066ba9c2b"
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 94 (192nd) — An Act revoking the town of Longmeadow’s acceptance of a certain general law establishing a board of election commissioners

By Representative Ashe of Longmeadow and Senator Lesser, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 94) of Brian M. Ashe and Eric P. Lesser (by vote of the town) for legislation to revoke the acceptance of a certain General Law establishing a board of election commissioners in the town of Longmeadow. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/H94.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Eric P. Lesser — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-22** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Senate concurred
- **2021-06-15** Hearing scheduled for 06/22/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-07-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-08-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-08-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-08-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-08-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-08-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 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/6f8ef67d-98b7-44e4-b4c3-ccf5c9494852`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).