---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting the position part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol from the civil service law"
description: "By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4146) of Susannah M. Whipps and Anne M. Gobi (by vote of the town) that the position of part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol be exempt from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4146"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4146 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98e69e6f-283f-440b-9ce0-b6cb6b480d77"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4146"
source_hash: "babb176bd1caf65a5a711ac47e6fd90e8352d145418d6cfa0f28a0c1070b4cfe"
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 4146 (190th) — An Act exempting the position part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol from the civil service law

By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4146) of Susannah M. Whipps and Anne M. Gobi (by vote of the town) that the position of part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol be exempt from the civil service law. Public Service. [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/H4146.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-23** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Senate concurred
- **2018-04-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-10-04** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-10-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-10-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-10-18** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-10-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 280 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98e69e6f-283f-440b-9ce0-b6cb6b480d77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).