---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a charter for the city of Medford"
description: "An Act establishing a charter for the city of Medford"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4263"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4263 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-16"
last_action: "2025-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6da0c0df-3a2d-497a-82d0-afbbc08e2670"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4263"
source_hash: "87edfa3d0e0eee95a92cc15ef8263ec55795d7ec07da129578aa2cba6eb456d4"
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 4263 (194th) — An Act establishing a charter for the city of Medford

## 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/H4263.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government — primary (organization)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Paul J. Donato — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-16** Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
- **2025-07-16** New draft of H4146
- **2025-07-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-21** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-18** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-09-04** Read third `reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** Amended (Jehlen) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2597 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-09-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **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`
- **2025-09-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 30 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/6da0c0df-3a2d-497a-82d0-afbbc08e2670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).