---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Fairhaven Fire Department"
description: "By Mr. Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1747) of Mark C. Montigny (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the Fairhaven Fire Department. Public Service. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 1747"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1747 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark C. Montigny"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-06-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c60a8c79-b6f8-4e0b-a3f7-1f4cac1670a1"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1747"
source_hash: "319264e57bc0f55ee9bbc4896adaae799ed68b4386384f9f593a1dc113a13d4a"
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 S 1747 (192nd) — An Act relative to the Fairhaven Fire Department

By Mr. Montigny, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1747) of Mark C. Montigny (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the Fairhaven Fire Department. Public Service. [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/S1747.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Mark C. Montigny — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** House concurred
- **2021-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-05-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-01** Taken out of the Notice Section
- **2021-07-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-06** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-08** Rules suspended
- **2022-06-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-06-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/c60a8c79-b6f8-4e0b-a3f7-1f4cac1670a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).