---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Rowley to continue employment of call firefighter Donald Dupray"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Rowley to continue employment of call firefighter Donald Dupray"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 5024"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5024 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-26"
last_action: "2024-11-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cf84e01-4499-4270-bde5-5100316d8a4c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H5024"
source_hash: "dece1281eb9f04eacb079ab7dcbde6661e05667286cfa518c6df777eebef7d4c"
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 5024 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Rowley to continue employment of call firefighter Donald Dupray

## 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/H5024.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-26** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2024-08-26** New draft of H4724
- **2024-08-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-09-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-09-09** Rules suspended
- **2024-09-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-09-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-26** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-11-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-11-04** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-11-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-11-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-11-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 236 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/5cf84e01-4499-4270-bde5-5100316d8a4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).