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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Sunderland to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith	By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4003) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Sunderland be authorized to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4003	Massachusetts H 4003 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	17	0	2023-07-20	2024-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/55003491-de37-429b-9584-c4dd7bf5f01d	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4003	ee4ebfe3217e4f4c3b4d9d27b070480f43995e4c3cc14ff222915a4a3b80eb93	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4003 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Sunderland to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith

By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4003) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Sunderland be authorized to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith. 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

• Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
• Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-07-20 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-07-24 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
• 2023-12-21 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-12-21 Rules suspended
• 2023-12-21 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-01-16 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-18 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-02-29 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-05-09 Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-13 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-06-06 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-06-10 Enacted passage
• 2024-06-10 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55003491-de37-429b-9584-c4dd7bf5f01d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).