---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Town of Milford Select Board to appoint a highway surveyor"
description: "By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4663) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) that the select board of the town of Milford be authorized to appoint a highway surveyor in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4663"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4663 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian W. Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-10-27"
last_action: "2026-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2972fbaf-ba72-4ad2-858f-6de391a42c42"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4663"
source_hash: "b293eeeaed908a23c5a2828a346f9ea74a399ba4152154f7a4496097beed82fc"
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 4663 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Town of Milford Select Board to appoint a highway surveyor

By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4663) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) that the select board of the town of Milford be authorized to appoint a highway surveyor in said town. 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/H4663.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian W. Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-30** Senate concurred
- **2025-10-31** Hearing scheduled for 10/31/2025 from 11:00 AM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-11-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-12-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-12-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-01-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-01-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-01-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-02-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 15 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/2972fbaf-ba72-4ad2-858f-6de391a42c42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).