---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing Cynthia Falzone to purchase creditable service from the Norfolk county retirement board"
description: "An Act authorizing Cynthia Falzone to purchase creditable service from the Norfolk county retirement board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3979"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3979 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-13"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5861b123-9ea9-45e8-a9db-a07661caad49"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3979"
source_hash: "ef10279d5f97c45b9cde6d1cee1e8d8332202ba363cc7fbd6a59b1fb1da41140"
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 3979 (193rd) — An Act authorizing Cynthia Falzone to purchase creditable service from the Norfolk county retirement board

## 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/H3979.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-13** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2023-07-13** New draft of H3651
- **2023-07-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-18** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-21** Committee recommended ought to pass and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-21** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-12-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-12-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-01-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 87 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Senate concurred

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5861b123-9ea9-45e8-a9db-a07661caad49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).