---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a charter for the city of Cambridge"
description: "By Representative Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4156) of Marjorie C. Decker (with the approval of the city council) for legislation to establish a charter for the city of Cambridge. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4156"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4156 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marjorie C. Decker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-27"
last_action: "2025-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d5d12a9-49b1-4e76-9837-07039d74431b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4156"
source_hash: "4b98c46c00738ea29fb45add4ba69430e3cf8f9c84932b1af5634fe2f9407e16"
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 4156 (194th) — An Act establishing a charter for the city of Cambridge

By Representative Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4156) of Marjorie C. Decker (with the approval of the city council) for legislation to establish a charter for the city of Cambridge. 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/H4156.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marjorie C. Decker — primary (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-17** Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-16** 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
- **2025-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-09-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-09-08** Read second `reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Amended (DiDomenico) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2598 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-09-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-09-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-09-11** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
- **2025-09-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-11** Senate concurred in the House further amendment
- **2025-09-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 27 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/9d5d12a9-49b1-4e76-9837-07039d74431b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).