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Bill	An Act exempting certain positions in the police department of the town of Millis from the civil service law	By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1452) of Richard J. Ross, David Paul Linsky and Shawn Dooley (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt certain positions in the police department in the town of Millis from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 1452	Massachusetts S 1452 (190th)	bill		enacted	Richard J. Ross	1	13	0	2017-01-23	2017-07-07	openstates	ocd-bill/6424c6ac-ef5d-44cd-806a-b7a408c41ce3	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1452	98436a9b14088c3e9b6e008d977ce6f7e41a22917055e2561a5c427f34173cac	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 1452 (190th) — An Act exempting certain positions in the police department of the town of Millis from the civil service law

By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1452) of Richard J. Ross, David Paul Linsky and Shawn Dooley (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt certain positions in the police department in the town of Millis 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

• Richard J. Ross — primary (person)
• David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
• Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-23 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 House concurred
• 2017-03-21 Hearing scheduled for 03/28/2017 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B1
• 2017-05-01 Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-06-05 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2017-06-05 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2017-06-07 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2017-06-12 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
• 2017-06-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2017-06-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2017-06-29 Enacted passage
• 2017-06-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2017-07-07 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 33 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6424c6ac-ef5d-44cd-806a-b7a408c41ce3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).