republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-3643.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing Matthew K. Sonnabend to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board	By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3643) of Kip A. Diggs and Steven George Xiarhos (with the approval of the county commissioners) that Matthew K. Sonnabend be authorized to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3643	Massachusetts H 3643 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Kip A. Diggs	1	20	0	2023-03-30	2024-01-19	openstates	ocd-bill/ed3b9abb-0b99-4fed-9a59-4858bbe89dd6	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3643	887787ea6f2dbde33339e6444af45e4acb706a23b6b6e6ad28f1b3aa56f33be0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3643 (193rd) — An Act authorizing Matthew K. Sonnabend to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board

By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3643) of Kip A. Diggs and Steven George Xiarhos (with the approval of the county commissioners) that Matthew K. Sonnabend be authorized to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board. Public Service.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Kip A. Diggs — primary (person)
• Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-30 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Senate concurred
• 2023-04-04 Hearing scheduled for 04/11/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
• 2023-10-11 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-11-02 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-11-02 Rules suspended
• 2023-11-02 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2023-11-27 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-11-29 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2023-12-18 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2526
• 2023-12-18 Rules suspended
• 2023-12-18 Read second reading-2
• 2023-12-18 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2526 amendment-passage
• 2023-12-18 Ordered to a third reading
• 2023-12-18 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-12-21 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-01-10 Enacted passage
• 2024-01-11 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-01-19 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 4 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ed3b9abb-0b99-4fed-9a59-4858bbe89dd6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).