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Bill	An Act authorizing certain members of the Webster Fire Department to buy-back eligible retirement service time	By Representative McKenna of Webster and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 7B) of Joseph D. McKenna and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the Webster Retirement Board to grant creditable service to Chris W. Jolda and Kevin P. Adams, members of the rescue service of the town of Webster. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	192nd	H 3967	Massachusetts H 3967 (192nd)	bill		enacted		1	21	0	2021-05-27	2022-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/56ef33f2-d0af-4bb2-89b8-e5a01ea8bf4a	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3967	17bb6e0e69b20597af53740172ae94b01c973341eba9fb9fe7ff2110bcdd8886	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3967 (192nd) — An Act authorizing certain members of the Webster Fire Department to buy-back eligible retirement service time

By Representative McKenna of Webster and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 7B) of Joseph D. McKenna and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the Webster Retirement Board to grant creditable service to Chris W. Jolda and Kevin P. Adams, members of the rescue service of the town of Webster. Public Service.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-05-27 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2021-07-09 Reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Senate concurred
• 2021-11-08 Hearing scheduled for 11/16/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
• 2022-02-09 Reporting date extended to Friday March 11, 2022, pending concurrence
• 2022-02-24 Senate concurred
• 2022-03-09 Reporting date extended to Friday May 27, 2022, pending concurrence
• 2022-03-31 Senate concurred
• 2022-05-31 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2022-06-09 Rules suspended
• 2022-06-09 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2022-07-07 Rules suspended
• 2022-07-07 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2022-07-11 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2022-07-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2022-08-18 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Enacted passage
• 2022-08-22 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2022-08-30 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 207 of the Acts of 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56ef33f2-d0af-4bb2-89b8-e5a01ea8bf4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).