---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to charter changes for the town of Longmeadow"
description: "By Representative Ashe of Longmeadow and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4312) of Brian M. Ashe (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Longmeadow. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4312"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4312 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cca64c25-3be4-45a6-861d-0a875895d5e2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4312"
source_hash: "fccff20bcb6ec567a71da3fe611db0a19d8f144fa59ef535d01b8e3794e1e7bc"
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 4312 (194th) — An Act relative to charter changes for the town of Longmeadow

By Representative Ashe of Longmeadow and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4312) of Brian M. Ashe (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Longmeadow. 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/H4312.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-23** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-24** Senate concurred
- **2025-08-14** Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-09-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2025-10-14** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-11-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-11** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 107 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/cca64c25-3be4-45a6-861d-0a875895d5e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).