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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to exempt the position of Chief of Police from civil service law"
description: "By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3864) of David T. Vieira, Susan L. Moran and Steven G. Xiarhos (by vote of the town) that the town of Bourne be authorized to exempt the position of chief of police from civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3864"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3864 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David T. Vieira"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-10"
last_action: "2022-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40987a98-16e6-43f1-bf7b-c82ddeea0eea"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3864"
source_hash: "515d9c8e1e497b04bf759561bfb6a952766a0ec7c1ce984c6b4dd35d150bf7cf"
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 3864 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to exempt the position of Chief of Police from civil service law
By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3864) of David T. Vieira, Susan L. Moran and Steven G. Xiarhos (by vote of the town) that the town of Bourne be authorized to exempt the position of chief of police from civil service law. 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/H3864.pdf)
## Sponsors
- David T. Vieira — primary (person)
- Steven G. Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)
- Susan L. Moran — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-06-10** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-15** Senate concurred
- **2021-09-21** Hearing scheduled for 09/28/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2022-05-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-14** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-07-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 116 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/40987a98-16e6-43f1-bf7b-c82ddeea0eea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).