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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Westford Home Rule Charter Act"
description: "By Representative Arciero of Westford and Senator Kennedy, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3694) of James Arciero and Edward J. Kennedy (by vote of the town) relative to the terms of office for newly appointed cemetery commissioners in the town of Westford. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3694"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3694 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-04-23"
last_action: "2019-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41e79860-5e04-4dbe-a920-82556fe81387"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3694"
source_hash: "d12a6bc5e250608f4a892804bf5c81cd0f41350b3245f8d0f14a508f5897a2fa"
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 3694 (191st) — An Act relative to the Westford Home Rule Charter Act
By Representative Arciero of Westford and Senator Kennedy, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3694) of James Arciero and Edward J. Kennedy (by vote of the town) relative to the terms of office for newly appointed cemetery commissioners in the town of Westford. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3694.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-04-23** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-29** Senate concurred
- **2019-07-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-10** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-09-05** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-10-21** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-10-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 100 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41e79860-5e04-4dbe-a920-82556fe81387`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).