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Bill	An Act authorizing the appointing authority of the Town of Bridgewater to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town	By Mr. D'Emilia of Bridgewater, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3677) of Angelo L. D'Emilia and Marc R. Pacheco (with the approval of the town council) that the town of Bridgewater be authorized to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	H 3677	Massachusetts H 3677 (191st)	bill		enacted	Angelo L. D'Emilia	1	19	0	2019-04-04	2020-08-05	openstates	ocd-bill/f94e55f8-d02a-4714-8eaf-309340e7de34	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3677	f006587ea279506768e22d93c497e4ca7357ea66c483ac5ac6a7b90087946930	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3677 (191st) — An Act authorizing the appointing authority of the Town of Bridgewater to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town

By Mr. D'Emilia of Bridgewater, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3677) of Angelo L. D'Emilia and Marc R. Pacheco (with the approval of the town council) that the town of Bridgewater be authorized to appoint police cadets under certain circumstances to the police department of said town. 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

• Angelo L. D'Emilia — primary (person)
• Angelo L. D'Emilia — cosponsor (person)
• Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-04-04 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2019-04-08 Senate concurred
• 2019-04-16 Discharged to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2019-04-18 Senate concurred
• 2019-04-24 Hearing scheduled for 05/01/2019 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in A-2
• 2019-11-19 Accompanied by S2219
• 2019-11-19 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2019-11-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2019-11-20 Rules suspended
• 2019-11-20 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-01-23 Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-01-27 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2020-02-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-07-29 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2020-07-29 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-07-29 Rules suspended
• 2020-07-29 Enacted passage
• 2020-07-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-08-05 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 134 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f94e55f8-d02a-4714-8eaf-309340e7de34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).