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Bill	An Act exempting the position part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol from the civil service law	By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4146) of Susannah M. Whipps and Anne M. Gobi (by vote of the town) that the position of part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol be exempt from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 4146	Massachusetts H 4146 (190th)	bill		enacted		1	13	0	2018-01-23	2018-10-31	openstates	ocd-bill/98e69e6f-283f-440b-9ce0-b6cb6b480d77	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4146	babb176bd1caf65a5a711ac47e6fd90e8352d145418d6cfa0f28a0c1070b4cfe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4146 (190th) — An Act exempting the position part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol from the civil service law

By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Gobi, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4146) of Susannah M. Whipps and Anne M. Gobi (by vote of the town) that the position of part-time officer in the police department in the town of Athol be exempt from 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

• Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
• Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-23 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2018-01-25 Senate concurred
• 2018-04-19 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-05-03 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-05-03 Rules suspended
• 2018-05-03 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-10-04 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-10-09 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-10-18 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2018-10-18 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-10-22 Enacted passage
• 2018-10-22 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-10-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 280 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98e69e6f-283f-440b-9ce0-b6cb6b480d77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).