---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill"
description: "By Representative Saunders of Belchertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4589) of Aaron L. Saunders (by vote of the town) that the town of Ludlow be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4589"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4589 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron L. Saunders"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-10-06"
last_action: "2026-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4e7078d-d30d-4b7b-9b88-4449d6de9faa"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4589"
source_hash: "97f09111147d2609abaaf7ffc8eb80dfa2b79dd25619a227e7e5f653cd49fe74"
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 4589 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill

By Representative Saunders of Belchertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4589) of Aaron L. Saunders (by vote of the town) that the town of Ludlow be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. 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/H4589.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Aaron L. Saunders — primary (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-06** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-09** Senate concurred
- **2025-10-14** Hearing scheduled for 10/14/2025 from 02:00 PM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-10-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-11-06** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-01** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-02-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-02-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 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/a4e7078d-d30d-4b7b-9b88-4449d6de9faa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).