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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Amherst to hold a special election on November 6, 2018"
description: "By Representative Goldstein-Rose of Amherst and Senator Rosenberg, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4482) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose and Stanley C. Rosenberg (by vote of the town) that the city known as the town of Amherst be authorized to hold a special election on November 6, 2018. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4482"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4482 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-09"
last_action: "2018-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/daab5b5b-d68a-4204-82c1-4e9fc4801628"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4482"
source_hash: "8ee26e124aa352ee6b02063a66cf8083bcbfccbd68168a5eeb605bd86578fe06"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 4482 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Amherst to hold a special election on November 6, 2018
By Representative Goldstein-Rose of Amherst and Senator Rosenberg, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4482) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose and Stanley C. Rosenberg (by vote of the town) that the city known as the town of Amherst be authorized to hold a special election on November 6, 2018. Election Laws. [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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4482.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Solomon Goldstein-Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Stanley C. Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-05-09** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-10** Senate concurred
- **2018-05-25** Hearing scheduled for 05/30/2018 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
- **2018-05-25** Hearing scheduled for 05/31/2018 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
- **2018-05-29** Hearing canceled new hearing TBD
- **2018-06-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-06-11** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-20** Rules suspended
- **2018-06-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-06-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-06-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-06-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 118 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/daab5b5b-d68a-4204-82c1-4e9fc4801628`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).