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Bill An Act exempting certain positions in the city known as the town of West Springfield from the civil service law By Representative Finn of West Springfield and Senator Welch, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4042) of Michael J. Finn and James T. Welch (with the approval of the mayor and town council) that the city known as the town of West Springfield be authorized to exempt certain positions in said town from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 191st H 4042 Massachusetts H 4042 (191st)
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Massachusetts H 4042 (191st) — An Act exempting certain positions in the city known as the town of West Springfield from the civil service law

By Representative Finn of West Springfield and Senator Welch, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4042) of Michael J. Finn and James T. Welch (with the approval of the mayor and town council) that the city known as the town of West Springfield be authorized to exempt certain positions in said town 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

  • James T. Welch — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael J. Finn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-08-08 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
  • 2019-08-12 Senate concurred
  • 2019-10-11 Hearing scheduled for 10/21/2019 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1
  • 2019-11-07 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2019-11-12 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2019-11-12 Rules suspended
  • 2019-11-12 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2019-12-02 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2019-12-03 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2019-12-23 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2019-12-23 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2019-12-26 Enacted passage
  • 2019-12-26 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2020-01-03 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 149 of the Acts of 2019 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b46f865-98da-4b66-9853-7fda9692aec8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).