---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the funding of the Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund in the Town of Uxbridge"
description: "By Representative Soter of Bellingham and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4097) of Michael J. Soter and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) relative to the funding of the other post-employment benefits liability trust fund in the town of Uxbridge. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4097"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4097 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-09-30"
last_action: "2020-01-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/087a5017-5e75-41df-9301-b466461d0edf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4097"
source_hash: "50d408077291a323f780aa2e425f2d863683a44cd7480c63aab0151931238cba"
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 4097 (191st) — An Act relative to the funding of the Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund in the Town of Uxbridge

By Representative Soter of Bellingham and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4097) of Michael J. Soter and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) relative to the funding of the other post-employment benefits liability trust fund in the town of Uxbridge. 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/191/H4097.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-30** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-03** Senate concurred
- **2019-10-07** Hearing scheduled for 10/15/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2019-10-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-28** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-01-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-01-09** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-01-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-01-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-01-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 7 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/087a5017-5e75-41df-9301-b466461d0edf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).