republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-3656.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing John R. Stowe, Jr. to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board	By Representative Xiarhos of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3656) of Steven George Xiarhos and Susan L. Moran (with the approval of the county commissioners) that John R. Stowe, Jr., be authorized to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3656	Massachusetts H 3656 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Steven George Xiarhos	1	15	0	2023-03-30	2024-01-31	openstates	ocd-bill/e8bbbadb-7671-4d4d-a953-d3ffe881cac7	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3656	b3df934d998f09592ac69913a8a9292b361a0640664f74046eb4764c8248af04	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3656 (193rd) — An Act authorizing John R. Stowe, Jr. to purchase creditable service from the Barnstable County Retirement Board

By Representative Xiarhos of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3656) of Steven George Xiarhos and Susan L. Moran (with the approval of the county commissioners) that John R. Stowe, Jr., 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

• Steven George Xiarhos — primary (person)
• Susan L. Moran — 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
• 2023-07-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-07 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-08-07 Rules suspended
• 2023-08-07 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2023-09-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-09-28 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-01-22 Rules suspended
• 2024-01-22 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-01-25 Enacted passage
• 2024-01-25 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-01-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 15 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8bbbadb-7671-4d4d-a953-d3ffe881cac7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).