---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act concerning the Acting Mayor of Holyoke"
description: "By Ms. Duffy of Holyoke, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 99) of Patricia A. Duffy (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of mayor in the city of Holyoke. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 99"
citation: "Massachusetts H 99 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia A. Duffy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-04-01"
last_action: "2021-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f4a858f-ef3e-4d61-bb44-b1ba235611d0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H99"
source_hash: "89f2168b2196694503781b57d565bcea3bcb2b5e327369354b90fe21c0cf3e21"
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 99 (192nd) — An Act concerning the Acting Mayor of Holyoke

By Ms. Duffy of Holyoke, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 99) of Patricia A. Duffy (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of mayor in the city of Holyoke. Election Laws. [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/H99.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patricia A. Duffy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-01** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Senate concurred
- **2021-04-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-04-05** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Rules suspended
- **2021-04-05** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 11 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/4f4a858f-ef3e-4d61-bb44-b1ba235611d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).