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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting the city of Northampton from appointments to the Northampton License Commission on the basis of party affiliation"
description: "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.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4284"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4284 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-13"
last_action: "2022-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/286095d4-3f73-4783-9eac-df169f4af8a6"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4284"
source_hash: "81c9a8e863d61f1428641d19ff4dc03db545c08ee1d44c5d472d503a344f304d"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4284.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/286095d4-3f73-4783-9eac-df169f4af8a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).