---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to amend the town of Natick home rule charter"
description: "By Representative Linsky of Natick, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3898) of David Paul Linsky (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Natick. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 3898"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3898 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Paul Linsky"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2026-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7907e517-7204-44e8-b16f-41e7b68c1e13"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3898"
source_hash: "c5f5f5a8f519bf9791b3c68a14f946712f4b40b7199a8dc7f3c41fd4fdaf0ce0"
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 3898 (194th) — An Act to amend the town of Natick home rule charter

By Representative Linsky of Natick, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3898) of David Paul Linsky (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Natick. 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/194/H3898.pdf)

## Sponsors

- David Paul Linsky — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2025-07-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-18** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-02-05** The report was accepted
- **2026-02-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-02-05** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2026-02-05** Bills in the Third Reading report accepted, see S2953
- **2026-02-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-02-09** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-26** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
- **2026-03-02** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-02** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2026-03-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7907e517-7204-44e8-b16f-41e7b68c1e13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).