---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the town of Richmond Free Public Library"
description: "By Representative Davis of Great Barrington and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4154) of Leigh Davis (by vote of the town) relative to the town of Richmond Free Public Library. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4154"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4154 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-22"
last_action: "2025-12-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/491df5be-bfad-4a0c-b1b3-45cb5448702a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4154"
source_hash: "7b46ea26e7a6e7b73b4274cbaf20a4f2750fc5fccc4eb8e91c2f196f8b8fe9dd"
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 4154 (194th) — An Act relative to the town of Richmond Free Public Library

By Representative Davis of Great Barrington and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4154) of Leigh Davis (by vote of the town) relative to the town of Richmond Free Public Library. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/194/H4154.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Leigh Davis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-22** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-17** Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-25** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 81 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/491df5be-bfad-4a0c-b1b3-45cb5448702a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).