---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Freetown"
description: "An Act authorizing the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Freetown"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3931"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3931 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-06-20"
last_action: "2024-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53fe4923-f3f5-431a-8785-900c5503a7ab"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3931"
source_hash: "ac481998e8c2dd6b73158d8ed7bcd44ca82deded3c3ec4a20909a124a3b923f2"
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 3931 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Freetown

## 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/H3931.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-20** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2023-06-20** New draft of H3730
- **2023-06-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-17** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** 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`
- **2024-07-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-07-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 134 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/53fe4923-f3f5-431a-8785-900c5503a7ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).