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Bill	An Act exempting all positions in the police department of the town of Williamstown from the civil service law	By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2579) of Adam G. Hinds and John Barrett (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt all positions in the police department of the town of Williamstown from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2579	Massachusetts S 2579 (190th)	bill		enacted	Adam G. Hinds	1	14	0	2018-06-28	2018-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/abe8afe5-384b-456d-8bd2-dd577386aa48	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2579	82630d3008e5c120b96bec59c823279758994fd55c9bb6799c171e10f850e71a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2579 (190th) — An Act exempting all positions in the police department of the town of Williamstown from the civil service law

By Mr. Hinds, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2579) of Adam G. Hinds and John Barrett (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt all positions in the police department of the town of Williamstown 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

• Adam G. Hinds — primary (person)
• John Barrett — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-06-28 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 House concurred
• 2018-07-06 Hearing scheduled for 07/10/2018 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in 437
• 2018-07-30 Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-08-27 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2018-08-27 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-08-30 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2018-09-04 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2018-09-04 Rules suspended
• 2018-09-04 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-09-17 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-09-20 Enacted passage
• 2018-09-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-09-27 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 250 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/abe8afe5-384b-456d-8bd2-dd577386aa48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).