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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Boylston to continue the employment of police chief Anthony Sahagian"
description: "By Mr. Naughton of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4715) of Harold P. Naughton, Jr., (by vote of the town) that the town of Boylston be authorized to continue the employment of police chief Anthony Sahagian, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4715"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4715 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harold P. Naughton, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-05-14"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebff5794-d311-4091-a56a-7484519d7241"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4715"
source_hash: "a086f6a32699ae58609cfe648a880c68e7d4f158852ea100b3c4c6e083f2272e"
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 4715 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Boylston to continue the employment of police chief Anthony Sahagian
By Mr. Naughton of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4715) of Harold P. Naughton, Jr., (by vote of the town) that the town of Boylston be authorized to continue the employment of police chief Anthony Sahagian, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4715.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Harold P. Naughton, Jr. — primary (person)
- Harold P. Naughton, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-05-14** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-18** Senate concurred
- **2020-06-01** Hearing scheduled for 06/04/2020 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Electronic Hearing
- **2020-06-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-06-24** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-29** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 102 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebff5794-d311-4091-a56a-7484519d7241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).