---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act approving the Townsend special act charter"
description: "By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3728) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Townsend. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3728"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3728 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret R. Scarsdale"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-06"
last_action: "2024-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/755b9331-2de7-49b3-94ce-3889bddeeda6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3728"
source_hash: "7af6b6d09ddbc17a40036c9e3c70e3432197c6ca3704c5c2393c83ee5c0d9ee2"
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 3728 (193rd) — An Act approving the Townsend special act charter

By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3728) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Townsend. 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/193/H3728.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Margaret R. Scarsdale — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-06** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-12** Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-07-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-05-02** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2024-05-02** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2752 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-02** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-05-06** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-09-30** House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see text of House document numbered 5064
- **2024-10-21** Rules suspended
- **2024-10-21** Senate concurred in the further House amendment
- **2024-10-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-10-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 229 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/755b9331-2de7-49b3-94ce-3889bddeeda6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).