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Bill	An Act exempting all positions in the city known as the Town of Franklin's fire department from the civil service law	By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4411) of Jeffrey N. Roy (with the approval of the town council) that the city known as the town of Franklin be authorized to exempt all positions in the fire department of said town from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	H 4411	Massachusetts H 4411 (191st)	bill		enacted	Jeffrey N. Roy	1	14	0	2020-02-10	2020-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/8a116cfa-9845-488c-91a3-ab09be9b0bfc	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4411	a83e40a30d84c5a912c28a1e635305e90efb1f3d423b769789c35507158ca291	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4411 (191st) — An Act exempting all positions in the city known as the Town of Franklin's fire department from the civil service law

By Mr. Roy of Franklin, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4411) of Jeffrey N. Roy (with the approval of the town council) that the city known as the town of Franklin be authorized to exempt all positions in the fire department of 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

• Jeffrey N. Roy — primary (person)
• Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-10 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Senate concurred
• 2020-03-02 Hearing scheduled for 03/04/2020 from 11:15 AM-12:15 PM in A-1
• 2020-04-09 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2020-05-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
• 2020-05-14 Rules suspended
• 2020-05-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-06-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-06-04 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2, reading-1
• 2020-06-25 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2020-06-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-06-29 Enacted passage
• 2020-06-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-07-02 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a116cfa-9845-488c-91a3-ab09be9b0bfc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).