---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the charter and the town clerk in the town of Falmouth"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 5107) [Local Approval Received]. May 4, 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5412"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5412 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-05-04"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3931b9db-8ba2-463c-9353-0bd79d1f703f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5412"
source_hash: "7b97c6219c2b7a16d8765e38c2c790e9cb47d160080a9d587352940b62ae975b"
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 5412 (194th) — An Act relative to the charter and the town clerk in the town of Falmouth

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 5107) [Local Approval Received]. May 4, 2026.

## 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/H5412.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas W. Moakley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-04** Substituted for H5107
- **2026-05-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-05-07** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-06-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-06-11** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, 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 106 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/3931b9db-8ba2-463c-9353-0bd79d1f703f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).