---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Avon to appoint a town clerk"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2270) [Local Approval Received]. September 25, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4556"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4556 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-25"
last_action: "2026-01-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae1ee6fa-f252-4932-9882-f24e74a46cb6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4556"
source_hash: "07c6c1ee1d1fe63a9732ef050cfc02c9e640f4b905b2e04d34bc0e671a00b53f"
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 4556 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Avon to appoint a town clerk

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2270) [Local Approval Received]. September 25, 2025.

## 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/H4556.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-25** Substituted for H2270
- **2025-09-25** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-09-29** 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`
- **2026-01-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-01-20** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-01-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 13 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/ae1ee6fa-f252-4932-9882-f24e74a46cb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).