---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Hopkinton to incorporate appointment powers of the board of library trustees"
description: "By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4292) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to appointment powers of the board of library trustees in the town of Hopkinton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4292"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4292 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James C. Arena-DeRosa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-17"
last_action: "2026-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2f0f573-cc6e-45da-b9bd-599e9107924e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4292"
source_hash: "47493050f1ba4dd4ad2a23a47656032394abae0f64a20539c533b34cf1824642"
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 4292 (194th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Hopkinton to incorporate appointment powers of the board of library trustees

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4292) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) relative to appointment powers of the board of library trustees in the town of Hopkinton. 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/H4292.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James C. Arena-DeRosa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-17** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** Senate concurred
- **2025-07-24** Hearing scheduled for 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:15 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-07-29** Hearing rescheduled to 07/29/2025 from 01:00 PM-06:05 PM in Gardner Auditorium and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2025-08-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-08** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-23** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 42 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/d2f0f573-cc6e-45da-b9bd-599e9107924e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).