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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the Ware Fire Department"
description: "By Mr. Smola of Warren, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2774) of Todd M. Smola and Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment of fire officers and firefighters in the town of Ware. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 2774"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2774 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd M. Smola"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-10-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d09b045-b9bf-47c7-b48f-08952396ae45"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2774"
source_hash: "72886b7860edc724db819e7e527d6fbb25cd6bacce00a072e754cb6501b082e8"
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 2774 (192nd) — An Act relative to the Ware Fire Department
By Mr. Smola of Warren, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2774) of Todd M. Smola and Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment of fire officers and firefighters in the town of Ware. 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/192/H2774.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Todd M. Smola — primary (person)
- Anne M. Gobi — cosponsor (person)
- Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-09** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-15** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-10-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-20** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-10-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 247 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d09b045-b9bf-47c7-b48f-08952396ae45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).