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Bill	An Act authorizing the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District to continue the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski	By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Stephen Kulik relative to the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski by the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 3957	Massachusetts H 3957 (190th)	bill		enacted	Stephen Kulik	1	18	0	2017-09-25	2018-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/def2eccc-5578-44d3-aa67-84926ea83329	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3957	65418305d09bb72a4767e6fec1c4beea0d2ec8ec9f367493fbd66e8ff6ef161d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3957 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District to continue the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski

By Mr. Kulik of Worthington, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Stephen Kulik relative to the employment of Fire Chief Chester Yazwinski by the Deerfield Area Fire Protection District. Public Service.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Stephen Kulik — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-09-25 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2017-10-12 Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2017-10-16 Senate concurred
• 2017-11-03 Hearing scheduled for 11/07/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-2
• 2017-12-07 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-12-11 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2017-12-11 Rules suspended
• 2017-12-11 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-01-08 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-01-11 Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2018-01-25 Rules suspended
• 2018-01-25 Read second, amended, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-01-29 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2018-03-12 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2018-03-15 Enacted passage
• 2018-03-15 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-03-23 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 56 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/def2eccc-5578-44d3-aa67-84926ea83329. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).