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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the town of Avons by-laws"
description: "By Representative Galvin of Canton and Senator Brady, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3746) of William C. Galvin and Michael D. Brady (by vote of the town) that the town of Avon be authorized to amend the by-laws of said town to change the name of the board of selectmen to select board in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3746"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3746 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-10"
last_action: "2023-11-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c9db762-cd09-412f-8be7-41faf7ac8670"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3746"
source_hash: "eecf47062e7af557ada33d569ff7b978f424e5a5d9767abc3c9fdaa79ef88a7e"
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 3746 (193rd) — An Act amending the town of Avons by-laws
By Representative Galvin of Canton and Senator Brady, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3746) of William C. Galvin and Michael D. Brady (by vote of the town) that the town of Avon be authorized to amend the by-laws of said town to change the name of the board of selectmen to select board in said town. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3746.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael D. Brady — cosponsor (person)
- William C. Galvin — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-04-10** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** 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 as changed and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-08-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-07** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-11-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-11-02** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
- **2023-11-02** Amended (Brady) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2494 `amendment-passage`
- **2023-11-02** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2023-11-06** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2023-11-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2023-11-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-11-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-11-28** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c9db762-cd09-412f-8be7-41faf7ac8670`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).