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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to expand membership opportunities in local cultural councils"
description: "By Mr. Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3378) of Kenneth I. Gordon and others for legislation to prohibit chief appointing authorities and members of local appropriating authorities from membership in local cultural councils. Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3378"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3378 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenneth I. Gordon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-11-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3ba8f92-7d1a-4954-9d4e-70dce05520b5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3378"
source_hash: "cbe350a632cd25eeefbb3c0078e400f54cafdb02d6e34794ab9a7c7ca77663e0"
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 3378 (192nd) — An Act to expand membership opportunities in local cultural councils
By Mr. Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3378) of Kenneth I. Gordon and others for legislation to prohibit chief appointing authorities and members of local appropriating authorities from membership in local cultural councils. Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.
## 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/H3378.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Kenneth I. Gordon — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jay Barrows — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- Jonathan D. Zlotnik — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
- Mary S. Keefe — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
- Nika C. Elugardo — cosponsor (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-10-20** Hearing scheduled for 10/26/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-21** Accompanied by S2243
- **2022-03-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-04-07** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-09** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-11-03** Rules suspended
- **2022-11-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-11-03** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 266 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
- **2022-11-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 266 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/f3ba8f92-7d1a-4954-9d4e-70dce05520b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).