---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to establishing a trust to administer a length of service award program for the Swansea Fire Department"
description: "By Representative Haddad of Somerset, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4047) of Patricia A. Haddad (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to establish a trust to administer a length of service award program for volunteer firefighters of the fire department of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4047"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4047 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patricia A. Haddad"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-08-07"
last_action: "2024-01-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6a64b60-d8c5-4385-91b9-abcf3674e4ab"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4047"
source_hash: "9feffc9534673b9ed5af846c7c7b0d999e8ec02e3b0b5b5939ed13ad95b29c88"
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 4047 (193rd) — An Act relative to establishing a trust to administer a length of service award program for the Swansea Fire Department

By Representative Haddad of Somerset, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4047) of Patricia A. Haddad (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to establish a trust to administer a length of service award program for volunteer firefighters of the fire department of said town. 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/H4047.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patricia A. Haddad — primary (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-07** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-08-10** Senate concurred
- **2023-10-09** Hearing scheduled for 10/17/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
- **2023-11-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-11-20** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-12-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-12-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-12-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-12-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-12-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-12-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-01-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/e6a64b60-d8c5-4385-91b9-abcf3674e4ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).