---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough"
description: "By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4170) of Danielle W. Gregoire and Carmine Lawrence Gentile (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4170"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4170 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-29"
last_action: "2025-11-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39ca8e9f-2ce9-4e8a-a7bc-f62618dd7264"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4170"
source_hash: "88a20491848c8263414b5378127e1198ba128453683424bcbc06733be2da16a7"
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 4170 (194th) — An Act relative to the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough

By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4170) of Danielle W. Gregoire and Carmine Lawrence Gentile (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough. Election Laws. [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/H4170.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-29** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-27** Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-10-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-27** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-30** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-11-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-10** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-11-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 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/39ca8e9f-2ce9-4e8a-a7bc-f62618dd7264`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).