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Bill An Act to amend the Blackstone home rule charter by deleting the Town Administrator residency requirement By Representative Soter of Bellingham and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3998) of Michael J. Soter and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) relative to the residency requirement for the town administrator of the town of Blackstone. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 192nd H 3998 Massachusetts H 3998 (192nd)
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Massachusetts H 3998 (192nd) — An Act to amend the Blackstone home rule charter by deleting the Town Administrator residency requirement

By Representative Soter of Bellingham and Senator Fattman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3998) of Michael J. Soter and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) relative to the residency requirement for the town administrator of the town of Blackstone. 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

Sponsors

  • Michael J. Soter — cosponsor (person)
  • Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-07-26 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
  • 2021-07-29 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
  • 2021-10-28 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2021-11-01 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
  • 2022-04-04 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2022-04-04 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2022-04-07 Enacted passage
  • 2022-04-07 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2022-04-12 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/10011984-aa3e-46d6-9055-a11032ccb1b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).