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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Hinsdale to continue employment of police chief Susan Rathbun"
description: "By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 5062) of Paul W. Mark (by vote of the town) that the town of Hinsdale be authorized to continue employment of police chief Susan Rathbun. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5062"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5062 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul W. Mark"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-20"
last_action: "2022-12-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c468756a-4ce3-493e-9b98-8ea25dbc9a25"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5062"
source_hash: "c32fedc0e72354d18aebee92154664d90696e665524570ea73460d51088c726b"
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 5062 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Hinsdale to continue employment of police chief Susan Rathbun
By Mr. Mark of Peru, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 5062) of Paul W. Mark (by vote of the town) that the town of Hinsdale be authorized to continue employment of police chief Susan Rathbun. Public Service. [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/H5062.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Paul W. Mark — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-07-20** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-21** Senate concurred
- **2022-07-21** Hearing scheduled for 07/25/2022 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2022-08-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-08-25** Rules suspended
- **2022-08-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-06** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-11** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-12-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-12-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-12-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 305 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/c468756a-4ce3-493e-9b98-8ea25dbc9a25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).