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Bill An Act authorizing the appointing authority of the town of Mansfield to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town By Representative Barrows of Mansfield and Senator Timilty, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1327) of F. Jay Barrows and others (by vote of the town) that the town of Mansfield be authorized to institute appropriate recruitment procedures for police cadets in said town, notwithstanding certain provisions of the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 190th H 1327 Massachusetts H 1327 (190th)
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Massachusetts H 1327 (190th) — An Act authorizing the appointing authority of the town of Mansfield to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town

By Representative Barrows of Mansfield and Senator Timilty, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1327) of F. Jay Barrows and others (by vote of the town) that the town of Mansfield be authorized to institute appropriate recruitment procedures for police cadets in said town, notwithstanding certain provisions of the civil service law. Public Service. [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

Sponsors

  • Elizabeth A. Poirier — cosponsor (person)
  • F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
  • Louis L. Kafka — cosponsor (person)
  • Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-23 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
  • 2017-01-23 Senate concurred
  • 2017-03-21 Hearing scheduled for 03/28/2017 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B1
  • 2017-10-26 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-10-31 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2017-10-31 Rules suspended
  • 2017-10-31 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2018-01-16 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2018-01-18 Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2018-02-01 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2018-08-09 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2018-08-09 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2018-08-13 Enacted passage
  • 2018-08-13 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2018-08-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 233 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9a6262c2-0ea1-41ef-93d1-5da6c1c443b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).