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Bill	An Act relative to the town treasurer, town tax collector, and town clerk of the town of Chester	By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4283) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds (by vote of the town) that the town of Chester be authorized to convert the positions of town treasurer, town tax collector, and town clerk from elected positions to appointed positions. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	H 4283	Massachusetts H 4283 (191st)	bill		enacted		1	13	0	2019-12-30	2020-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/ca291196-8f1d-458c-ae75-88449478e472	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4283	0dfef09c48b513130baf3d5c9802db578a492f774ec6ec3041e7d81bccdd9ab3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4283 (191st) — An Act relative to the town treasurer, town tax collector, and town clerk of the town of Chester

By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4283) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds (by vote of the town) that the town of Chester be authorized to convert the positions of town treasurer, town tax collector, and town clerk from elected positions to appointed positions. 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

• Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
• Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-30 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-02 Senate concurred
• 2020-01-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2020-01-23 Rules suspended
• 2020-01-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-03-12 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-03-16 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2, reading-1
• 2020-03-17 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2020-03-17 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-03-18 Enacted passage
• 2020-03-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-03-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca291196-8f1d-458c-ae75-88449478e472. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).