---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a municipal light commission in the city known as the town of Greenfield"
description: "By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2705) of Paul W. Mark, Carlos Gonzalez and John H. Rogers (with the approval of the mayor and town council) for legislation to establish a municipal light commission in the town of Greenfield . Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 2705"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2705 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul W. Mark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-12-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fde980a7-b9a5-49b4-9ebf-c9e473846feb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H2705"
source_hash: "3871f7cc7af666be517b06563511af9adcfff4defe7f28fdb00b95b381442579"
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 2705 (190th) — An Act establishing a municipal light commission in the city known as the town of Greenfield

By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2705) of Paul W. Mark, Carlos Gonzalez and John H. Rogers (with the approval of the mayor and town council) for legislation to establish a municipal light commission in the town of Greenfield . Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. [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/190/H2705.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul W. Mark — primary (person)
- Carlos González — cosponsor (person)
- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Senate concurred
- **2017-04-26** Hearing scheduled for 05/02/2017 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2017-07-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-11-02** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-11-06** Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-11-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-12-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-12-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-12-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 164 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/fde980a7-b9a5-49b4-9ebf-c9e473846feb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).