republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-3998.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to continue the employment of Mark Dellicker as deputy fire chief until a maximum age of 70	By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3998) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Holliston be authorized to continue the employment of Mark Dellicker as deputy fire chief of said town notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3998	Massachusetts H 3998 (193rd)	bill		enacted	James C. Arena-DeRosa	1	23	0	2023-07-17	2024-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e0052b29-c017-4e63-b092-ae21d792c27f	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3998	241402f793fcf655c1b96786b79322f54d3dc83a094f5f8d7bc55ff9c0c1d2f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3998 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to continue the employment of Mark Dellicker as deputy fire chief until a maximum age of 70

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3998) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Holliston be authorized to continue the employment of Mark Dellicker as deputy fire chief of said town notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [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

• James C. Arena-DeRosa — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-07-17 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-07-20 Senate concurred
• 2023-08-09 Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2023-11-22 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-12-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-12-14 Rules suspended
• 2023-12-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2023-12-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2023-12-28 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-01-25 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-01-25 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-29 Enacted passage
• 2024-01-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-02-15 Governor returned to the House with amendment
• 2024-02-15 For message, see H4386
• 2024-02-15 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 Governor's amendment considered (in the form approved by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading)
• 2024-03-18 Governor's amendment adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-03-25 Rules suspended
• 2024-03-25 Governors amendment adopted, in concurrence amendment-passage
• 2024-03-28 Re-enacted
• 2024-03-28 Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
• 2024-04-01 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 67 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0052b29-c017-4e63-b092-ae21d792c27f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).