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Bill	An Act further amending the charter of the town of Middleton	By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3970) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Bruce E. Tarr and Sally P. Kerans (by vote of the town) relative to amending the charter of the town of Middleton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3970	Massachusetts H 3970 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.	1	19	0	2023-07-06	2024-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/c6f8c0cb-f6fa-4513-aad2-20b73f369a47	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3970	f211ffa73c075f366f3586df7a979d138ceebd7060f58774462649e616d16a23	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3970 (193rd) — An Act further amending the charter of the town of Middleton

By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3970) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Bruce E. Tarr and Sally P. Kerans (by vote of the town) relative to amending the charter of the town of Middleton. 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

• Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — primary (person)
• Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Sally P. Kerans — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-07-06 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 Senate concurred
• 2023-09-19 Hearing scheduled for 09/26/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2023-10-16 Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-10-23 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-10-23 Rules suspended
• 2023-10-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2023-11-06 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-11-09 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-01-11 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-04-01 Read third reading-3
• 2024-04-01 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2716 amendment-passage
• 2024-04-01 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-04-03 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-04-11 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-04-16 Enacted passage
• 2024-04-16 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-04-24 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 83 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6f8c0cb-f6fa-4513-aad2-20b73f369a47. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).