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Bill An Act relative to establishing a trust to administer a length of service award program for the Swansea Fire Department By Representative Haddad of Somerset, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4047) of Patricia A. Haddad (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to establish a trust to administer a length of service award program for volunteer firefighters of the fire department of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 4047 Massachusetts H 4047 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 4047 (193rd) — An Act relative to establishing a trust to administer a length of service award program for the Swansea Fire Department

By Representative Haddad of Somerset, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4047) of Patricia A. Haddad (by vote of the town) that the town of Swansea be authorized to establish a trust to administer a length of service award program for volunteer firefighters of the fire department of 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

Sponsors

  • Patricia A. Haddad — primary (person)
  • Steven S. Howitt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-08-07 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
  • 2023-08-10 Senate concurred
  • 2023-10-09 Hearing scheduled for 10/17/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
  • 2023-11-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2023-11-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2023-11-20 Rules suspended
  • 2023-11-20 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2023-12-11 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2023-12-14 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2023-12-26 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2023-12-26 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
  • 2023-12-28 Enacted passage
  • 2023-12-28 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2024-01-03 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e6a64b60-d8c5-4385-91b9-abcf3674e4ab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).