---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing Dartmouth Fire District No. 1 to appoint the position of Treasurer"
description: "By Representative Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3952) of Christopher M. Markey that Dartmouth Fire District No. 1 be authorized to appoint the position of treasurer. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 3952"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3952 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher M. Markey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-12-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483ef2ae-59ec-4ef3-b2eb-0cd09d030a79"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3952"
source_hash: "937e7de1af775d819f0f9fe39210df185da2700f7ce5db22f6aa54da19f0377b"
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 3952 (194th) — An Act authorizing Dartmouth Fire District No. 1 to appoint the position of Treasurer

By Representative Markey of Dartmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3952) of Christopher M. Markey that Dartmouth Fire District No. 1 be authorized to appoint the position of treasurer. Municipalities and Regional Government.

## 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/H3952.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Christopher M. Markey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** 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`
- **2025-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-28** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-12-22** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-12-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-12-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 96 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/483ef2ae-59ec-4ef3-b2eb-0cd09d030a79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).