---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the home rule charter of the city of Beverly"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3747) [Local Approval Received]. September 14, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4093"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4093 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-09-14"
last_action: "2023-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e81d3e0-94c0-4966-8c71-53688f87a60c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4093"
source_hash: "7bc0e5022984eb8b14a734247bbdff5e25e0f0c2da127492aed77fb411d6cc61"
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 4093 (193rd) — An Act relative to the home rule charter of the city of Beverly

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3747) [Local Approval Received]. September 14, 2023.

## 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/H4093.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Jerald A. Parisella — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-14** Substituted for H3747
- **2023-09-14** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **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 (title changed) 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`
- **2023-09-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 48 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/1e81d3e0-94c0-4966-8c71-53688f87a60c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).