---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to change the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Billerica to select board to exhibit gender neutrality"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4847). September 21, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4988"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4988 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-09-21"
last_action: "2020-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c2e48d9-8406-4d3f-a21b-7a82a94c20b5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4988"
source_hash: "9676caa30075af1900d69eb51f0b5cbd5ef6f3bdfb9293ae4127c1af00b59e76"
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 4988 (191st) — An Act relative to change the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Billerica to select board to exhibit gender neutrality

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4847). September 21, 2020.

## 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/191/H4988.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Marc T. Lombardo — cosponsor (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-09-21** Substituted for H4847
- **2020-09-21** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-09-24** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-11-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-11-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-11-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-11-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-12-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 219 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c2e48d9-8406-4d3f-a21b-7a82a94c20b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).