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Bill	An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton	By Representative Carey of Easthampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3959) of Daniel R. Carey and John C. Velis (with the approval of the mayor and the city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3959	Massachusetts H 3959 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Daniel R. Carey	1	17	0	2023-06-29	2024-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/c38d2ff8-2092-49a3-aeda-43483ef93df2	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3959	12d176b1efbd46a6c89a2144eaa2642151277374b53cc5cf879548a06f44cf72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3959 (193rd) — An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton

By Representative Carey of Easthampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3959) of Daniel R. Carey and John C. Velis (with the approval of the mayor and the city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. Election Laws. [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

• Daniel R. Carey — primary (person)
• John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-29 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 Senate concurred
• 2023-11-20 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-11-27 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-11-27 Rules suspended
• 2023-11-27 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2023-12-21 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-12-26 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-03-07 Read third reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2696 amendment-passage
• 2024-03-07 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-03-11 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-03-21 Enacted passage
• 2024-03-21 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-03-27 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 60 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c38d2ff8-2092-49a3-aeda-43483ef93df2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).