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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4297"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4297 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-16"
last_action: "2022-11-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50cf3f04-aeab-4d3b-bb33-81610f8d319a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4297"
source_hash: "9b8def8e94055c5167f2865e43dfb05410863766cf5dcc282ada47ebf30d0cca"
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 4297 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver
## 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/H4297.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)
- Adam G. Hinds — cosponsor (person)
- Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-12-16** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2021-12-16** New draft of H4097
- **2021-12-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-12-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-12-27** Rules suspended
- **2021-12-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-01-20** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-02-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-09-29** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-03** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-17** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-11-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 279 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/50cf3f04-aeab-4d3b-bb33-81610f8d319a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).