---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to a cemetery in the town of Norton"
description: "By Representatives Howitt of Seekonk and Chaisson of Foxborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4348) of Steven S. Howitt and Paul R. Feeney (by vote of the town) that the town of Norton be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4348"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4348 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-28"
last_action: "2025-10-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/612c4b25-2298-4851-903b-769d72c390d9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4348"
source_hash: "cdd55b10cb1578042f0ef27b6af5398fd30fcf47434a006986f7f33d5b907356"
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 4348 (194th) — An Act relative to a cemetery in the town of Norton

By Representatives Howitt of Seekonk and Chaisson of Foxborough, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4348) of Steven S. Howitt and Paul R. Feeney (by vote of the town) that the town of Norton be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. 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/H4348.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-28** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-31** Senate concurred
- **2025-08-14** Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-09-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-09-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-09-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-09-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-06** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-10-20** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-10-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-10-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 50 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/612c4b25-2298-4851-903b-769d72c390d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).