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Bill	An Act further regulating the appointment of the trustees of the public library of the city of Boston	By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3862) of Byron Rushing (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to further regulate the appointment of trustees of the public library of said city. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 3862	Massachusetts H 3862 (190th)	bill		enacted	Byron Rushing	1	15	0	2017-07-31	2017-10-31	openstates	ocd-bill/ac2adf88-2ad0-497a-b03f-3b80ef455b4a	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3862	3891c4b4b0d1eaacb44d5cc8fd3f8aeb3ca3184a5ffffd5f74def74dc84f49cb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3862 (190th) — An Act further regulating the appointment of the trustees of the public library of the city of Boston

By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3862) of Byron Rushing (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to further regulate the appointment of trustees of the public library of said city. 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

Sponsors

• Byron Rushing — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-07-31 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2017-08-03 Senate concurred
• 2017-09-05 Hearing scheduled for 09/12/2017 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-2
• 2017-09-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-09-18 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2017-09-18 Rules suspended
• 2017-09-18 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-09-25 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2017-09-28 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2017-10-12 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-10-23 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2017-10-23 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2017-10-25 Enacted passage
• 2017-10-26 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2017-10-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ac2adf88-2ad0-497a-b03f-3b80ef455b4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).