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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Bernardston to continue the employment of fire chief Peter Shedd	By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4064) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Bernardston be authorized to continue the employment of Peter Shedd as fire chief of said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4064	Massachusetts H 4064 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	21	0	2023-08-21	2024-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/d9b42e0f-5a58-406d-bceb-4eeab3bea1b2	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4064	a9cd7020aa280d2e96f77e1003e163ae40324839314185bf8502a457d26b6152	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4064 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Bernardston to continue the employment of fire chief Peter Shedd

By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4064) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Bernardston be authorized to continue the employment of Peter Shedd as fire chief of said town. 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.

• 2023-08-21 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-08-24 Senate concurred
• 2023-09-26 Hearing scheduled for 10/03/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
• 2023-11-27 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-12-26 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2023-12-26 Rules suspended
• 2023-12-26 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-25 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-02-22 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-02-22 Read second reading-2
• 2024-02-22 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2671 amendment-passage
• 2024-02-22 Ordered to a third reading
• 2024-02-22 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
• 2024-06-17 Rules suspended
• 2024-06-17 Senate concurred in the House further amendment
• 2024-06-20 Enacted passage
• 2024-06-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-06-26 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 119 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9b42e0f-5a58-406d-bceb-4eeab3bea1b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).