---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton"
description: "An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4561"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4561 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-22"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e77b2c0-201a-4544-a8ce-275cb72a1b04"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4561"
source_hash: "316db1b58607e3d5ea89a0aaf5c9f57f5f0b2981438ed8e4b111064bb0b03af8"
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 4561 (193rd) — An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton

## 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/H4561.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Cynthia Stone Creem — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-22** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2024-04-22** New draft of H3987
- **2024-04-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-04-29** Rules suspended
- **2024-04-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-06-10** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-06-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-06-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 116 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/6e77b2c0-201a-4544-a8ce-275cb72a1b04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).