republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/192nd/h-4284.md

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Bill	An Act exempting the city of Northampton from appointments to the Northampton License Commission on the basis of party affiliation	By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4284) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa and Joanne M. Comerford (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Northampton be authorized to appoint members to the Northampton License Commission without regard to party affiliation. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	192nd	H 4284	Massachusetts H 4284 (192nd)	bill		enacted		1	17	0	2021-12-13	2022-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/286095d4-3f73-4783-9eac-df169f4af8a6	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4284	81c9a8e863d61f1428641d19ff4dc03db545c08ee1d44c5d472d503a344f304d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4284 (192nd) — An Act exempting the city of Northampton from appointments to the Northampton License Commission on the basis of party affiliation

By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4284) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa and Joanne M. Comerford (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Northampton be authorized to appoint members to the Northampton License Commission without regard to party affiliation. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [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

• Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-12-13 Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure referral-committee
• 2021-12-16 Senate concurred
• 2022-01-03 Hearing scheduled for 01/10/2022 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
• 2022-01-03 Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
• 2022-01-03 Hearing scheduled for 01/10/2022 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
• 2022-02-07 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2022-02-09 Rules suspended
• 2022-02-09 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2022-03-10 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2022-03-14 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2022-03-31 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2022-04-07 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2022-04-07 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2022-04-11 Enacted passage
• 2022-04-11 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2022-04-15 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 46 of the Acts of 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/286095d4-3f73-4783-9eac-df169f4af8a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).