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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act changing the Board of Selectmen of the town of Plainfield to a Select Board"
description: "By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3859) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds (by vote of the town) relative to changing the board of selectmen of the town of Plainfield to a select board. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3859"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3859 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-07"
last_action: "2022-02-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2791dd9c-3a26-4c8f-8abf-704f4b3af8ba"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3859"
source_hash: "a461f775f2215d52911467cca02669d534c0cead778c105ef6dca80c82b8fd43"
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 3859 (192nd) — An Act changing the Board of Selectmen of the town of Plainfield to a Select Board
By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Hinds, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3859) of Natalie M. Blais and Adam G. Hinds (by vote of the town) relative to changing the board of selectmen of the town of Plainfield to a select board. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/H3859.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-07** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** Senate concurred
- **2021-09-03** Hearing scheduled for 09/14/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-09-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-09-27** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-11-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-01-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-01-27** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-02-01** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 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/2791dd9c-3a26-4c8f-8abf-704f4b3af8ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).