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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Blackstone to continue the employment of fire chief Michael Sweeney"
description: "By Mr. Fattman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1517) of Ryan C. Fattman and Michael J. Soter (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Blackstone to continue the employment of fire chief Michael Sweeney. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 1517"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1517 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan C. Fattman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b66fd688-c2fe-4fa7-b951-7eb7e0e38ae9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S1517"
source_hash: "64f52ae6644e1926b112ca570573ae20ced7e3721ec5768eae4840346a837198"
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 S 1517 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Blackstone to continue the employment of fire chief Michael Sweeney
By Mr. Fattman, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1517) of Ryan C. Fattman and Michael J. Soter (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Blackstone to continue the employment of fire chief Michael Sweeney. 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/S1517.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Ryan C. Fattman — primary (person)
- Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** House concurred
- **2019-04-02** Hearing scheduled for 04/09/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2019-05-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-06-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-06-06** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-06-06** Rules suspended
- **2019-06-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-06-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-06-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-06-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 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/b66fd688-c2fe-4fa7-b951-7eb7e0e38ae9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).