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Bill	An Act relative to the City of Methuen's petition to borrow to address the school budget deficit	By Mrs. Campbell of Methuen, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4905) of Linda Dean Campbell, Kathleen O'Connor Ives and Frank A. Moran (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the school budget deficit in the city of Methuen. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 4905	Massachusetts H 4905 (190th)	bill		enacted	Linda Dean Campbell	1	17	0	2018-09-10	2018-10-31	openstates	ocd-bill/dfe5274f-24be-4d7a-af05-4acb1e9f699f	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4905	dd26411913d8a6e7c9764a3c404a1af29dbe5c8d7f6d856dc94209b01c7c259b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4905 (190th) — An Act relative to the City of Methuen's petition to borrow to address the school budget deficit

By Mrs. Campbell of Methuen, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4905) of Linda Dean Campbell, Kathleen O'Connor Ives and Frank A. Moran (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the school budget deficit in the city of Methuen. 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

• Linda Dean Campbell — primary (person)
• Frank A. Moran — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen O'Connor Ives — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-09-10 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2018-09-13 Senate concurred
• 2018-09-20 Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-09-27 Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-09-27 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-09-27 Rules suspended
• 2018-09-27 Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-09-27 Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-09-27 Amendment 2 adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-09-27 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2018-10-01 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-10-18 Committee recommended ought to pass committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-10-18 Rules suspended
• 2018-10-18 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-2, 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 278 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfe5274f-24be-4d7a-af05-4acb1e9f699f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).