---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Pittsfield to award a 1 year or multiple year contract to audit"
description: "By Representative Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2045) of Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Paul W. Mark (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to authorizing the city of Pittsfield to award a 1 year or multiple year contract to audit the books and accounts of said city. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2045"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2045 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-12-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce387ce4-8849-439e-bedd-48220a299ce6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2045"
source_hash: "787b705b6125b349314da8f5da3e043e137a78281708fa32b9b5fc64c904cd63"
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 2045 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city of Pittsfield to award a 1 year or multiple year contract to audit

By Representative Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2045) of Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Paul W. Mark (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to authorizing the city of Pittsfield to award a 1 year or multiple year contract to audit the books and accounts of said city. 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/193/H2045.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-12** Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-07-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-28** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-11-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-11-20** Read third, amended, (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-22** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-07** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2023-12-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-12-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-12-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 80 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce387ce4-8849-439e-bedd-48220a299ce6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).