---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for a town administrator in the town of Hopedale"
description: "By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4784) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) relative to the town administrator in the town of Hopedale. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4784"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4784 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian W. Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-11-24"
last_action: "2026-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76bcce01-9fa0-4420-a413-32b77804c6c6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4784"
source_hash: "71fa494f1883b77a4ba6d3ff3356f1a1b5adba647ba20dafcb16bfa01de82fa6"
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 4784 (194th) — An Act providing for a town administrator in the town of Hopedale

By Representative Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4784) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) relative to the town administrator in the town of Hopedale. 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/H4784.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian W. Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-24** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-26** Senate concurred
- **2025-12-11** Hearing scheduled for 12/11/2025 from 03:00 PM-04:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2026-01-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-03-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-04** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-05-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-05-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 81 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/76bcce01-9fa0-4420-a413-32b77804c6c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).