---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Seekonk"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3913) [Local Approval Received]. August 28, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4459"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4459 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-08-28"
last_action: "2026-01-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/470304e8-09a3-46be-9921-39eec4a91563"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4459"
source_hash: "1de555fc0072e1b7083f4baa7b956bf091ad6237da337360f1efb0ae48174010"
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 4459 (194th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Seekonk

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3913) [Local Approval Received]. August 28, 2025.

## 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/H4459.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-08-28** Substituted for H3913
- **2025-08-28** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-09-02** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-01-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 8 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/470304e8-09a3-46be-9921-39eec4a91563`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).