republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/h-3843.md

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Bill	An Act confirming the classification of Lawrence police patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr.’s death on February 12, 1972, as killed in the line of duty providing any additional or retroactive benefits to his survivors as a result of the confirmation of the classification	By Mr. Moran of Lawrence, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3843) of Frank A. Moran and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the death of patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr., of the city of Lawrence police department. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 3843	Massachusetts H 3843 (190th)	bill		enacted	Frank A. Moran	1	14	0	2017-07-26	2017-12-07	openstates	ocd-bill/db99fa79-bc8d-4cdd-98a1-93d3f7022b71	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3843	df208f11f476ff312c3e23ccf4cce7f80f6e38f0ce77c33ae025b28da2e0b2ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3843 (190th) — An Act confirming the classification of Lawrence police patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr.’s death on February 12, 1972, as killed in the line of duty providing any additional or retroactive benefits to his survivors as a result of the confirmation of the classification

By Mr. Moran of Lawrence, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3843) of Frank A. Moran and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the death of patrolman Eugene Scanlon, Sr., of the city of Lawrence police department. 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

• Frank A. Moran — primary (person)
• Bryan DePena — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel Rivera (mayor) — cosponsor (person)
• David Abdoo — cosponsor (person)
• Jeovanny Rodreguez — cosponsor (person)
• Kendrys Vasquez — cosponsor (person)
• Marc Laplante — cosponsor (person)
• Modesto Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Myra Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
• Nilka Alvarez-Rodriguez — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-07-26 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2017-07-27 Senate concurred
• 2017-09-13 Hearing scheduled for 09/19/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in 222
• 2017-10-17 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-10-19 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2017-10-19 Rules suspended
• 2017-10-19 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-11-06 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2017-11-08 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2017-11-30 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2017-11-30 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2017-11-30 Enacted passage
• 2017-11-30 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2017-12-07 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 144 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db99fa79-bc8d-4cdd-98a1-93d3f7022b71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).