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Bill An Act approving the Townsend special act charter By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3728) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Townsend. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 3728 Massachusetts H 3728 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 3728 (193rd) — An Act approving the Townsend special act charter

By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3728) of Margaret R. Scarsdale (by vote of the town) relative to the charter of the town of Townsend. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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

Sponsors

  • Margaret R. Scarsdale — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-04-06 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
  • 2023-04-10 Senate concurred
  • 2023-06-12 Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
  • 2023-07-17 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2023-08-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2023-08-14 Rules suspended
  • 2023-08-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2023-09-14 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2023-09-18 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2023-10-19 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2024-05-02 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2024-05-02 Read third (title changed) reading-3
  • 2024-05-02 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2752 amendment-passage
  • 2024-05-02 Passed to be engrossed passage
  • 2024-05-06 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2024-09-30 House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment, see text of House document numbered 5064
  • 2024-10-21 Rules suspended
  • 2024-10-21 Senate concurred in the further House amendment
  • 2024-10-30 Enacted passage
  • 2024-10-31 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2024-11-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 229 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/755b9331-2de7-49b3-94ce-3889bddeeda6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).