---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Adams Fire District"
description: "By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2031) of John Barrett, III relative to the Adams Fire District. Municipalities and Regional Government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2031"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2031 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Barrett, III"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-12-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b8f1a0e-e3e0-4d9f-a079-d775ef24c988"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2031"
source_hash: "30d896414c8608b135951117749a6ef45a6aad5db271e147feaa7da624a0b64e"
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 2031 (193rd) — An Act relative to the Adams Fire District

By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2031) of John Barrett, III relative to the Adams Fire District. Municipalities and Regional Government.

## 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/193/H2031.pdf)

## Sponsors

- John Barrett, III — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2024-01-12** Hearing scheduled for 01/12/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-03-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-04-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-04-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-11-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-11-27** Rules suspended
- **2024-11-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-12-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 253 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b8f1a0e-e3e0-4d9f-a079-d775ef24c988`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).