---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to any vacancy among town meeting members in Milford"
description: "By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4171) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) relative to vacancies among town meeting members in the town of Milford. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4171"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4171 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian W. Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-29"
last_action: "2026-02-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10e9d90c-d58d-4e72-97b3-a0161ebcc595"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4171"
source_hash: "4f1b32c7dc24c36b28398551446806902477bb0b691093e72b2a729cd99ac51b"
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 4171 (194th) — An Act relative to any vacancy among town meeting members in Milford

By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4171) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) relative to vacancies among town meeting members in the town of Milford. Election Laws. [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/H4171.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian W. Murray — primary (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-29** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-27** Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-10-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-30** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-24** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-01-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-01-08** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2026-01-08** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2904 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-08** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-01-12** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2026-01-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-02-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 17 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10e9d90c-d58d-4e72-97b3-a0161ebcc595`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).