---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act merging certain voting precincts in the Town of Groton"
description: "By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3884) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to merging certain voting precincts in the town of Groton. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3884"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3884 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret R. Scarsdale"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-06-01"
last_action: "2023-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf0439d1-7a2d-4102-9336-06c88efdf64d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3884"
source_hash: "95c9df11eb0b15bd3d2f5be009c2a20a38bd896af2678cceeb0054714ea5bfc0"
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 3884 (193rd) — An Act merging certain voting precincts in the Town of Groton

By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3884) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to merging certain voting precincts in the town of Groton. Election Laws. [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/H3884.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Margaret R. Scarsdale — primary (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-14** Hearing scheduled for 06/21/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-09-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-09-05** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-05** 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
- **2023-09-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-09-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-09-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-09-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf0439d1-7a2d-4102-9336-06c88efdf64d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).