---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Deerfield to continue the employment of police department members Michael W. Habel, Robert A. Thrasher, and Mark Jacques"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 4291) [Local Approval Received]. April 16, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4557"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4557 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-16"
last_action: "2024-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3afa5f2e-be55-49d1-8a7d-42c3e74b6499"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4557"
source_hash: "12096c3c0b220bba8218efac027746c03246ca15f6fc6a8d71058af5fd24503f"
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 4557 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Deerfield to continue the employment of police department members Michael W. Habel, Robert A. Thrasher, and Mark Jacques

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 4291) [Local Approval Received]. April 16, 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/H4557.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-16** Substituted for H4291
- **2024-04-16** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-04-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-08-12** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 184 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/3afa5f2e-be55-49d1-8a7d-42c3e74b6499`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).