---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Devens Fire Department"
description: "By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1328) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to members of the Devens Fire Department. Public Service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 1328"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1328 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer E. Benson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d304073-a2fe-454a-9a51-1e55b387c419"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1328"
source_hash: "2ba8b8f681ce0a9f58aae17dbba2bb2d9d5a42b34914472b46cc95d34db25ef9"
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 1328 (190th) — An Act relative to the Devens Fire Department

By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1328) of Jennifer E. Benson and others relative to members of the Devens Fire Department. Public Service.

## 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/190/H1328.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Jennifer E. Benson — primary (person)
- Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
- Frank A. Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- James J. Dwyer — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly N. Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle M. DuBois — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-03-21** Hearing scheduled for 03/28/2017 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B1
- **2017-04-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-18** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-10** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-11** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-11-09** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-09** Read second, amended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-11-13** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-07** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-12-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 161 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d304073-a2fe-454a-9a51-1e55b387c419`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).