---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act repealing certain fiscal stability procedures in the towns of Chesterfield and Goshen"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4019). April 1, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4525"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4525 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-01"
last_action: "2024-12-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0daa29a4-9996-4a24-a27d-e20aca545551"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4525"
source_hash: "cb852d3f9be107348403b0bac59ee55ef595eb6afdb9d2e4f7e5b3a787a9ad45"
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 4525 (193rd) — An Act repealing certain fiscal stability procedures in the towns of Chesterfield and Goshen

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4019). April 1, 2024.

## 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/H4525.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-01** Substituted for H4019
- **2024-04-01** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** 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 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 254 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/0daa29a4-9996-4a24-a27d-e20aca545551`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).