republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4072.md

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Bill	An Act exempting the positions of police chief and fire chief in the city of Greenfield from the civil service law	By Representatives Whipps of Athol and Blais of Deerfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4072) of Susannah M. Whipps and Natalie M. Blais (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Greenfield be authorized to exempt the positions of police chief and fire chief in said town from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4072	Massachusetts H 4072 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2023-08-28	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/daa43c7f-104e-4127-b30e-b8faf8ca6046	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4072	28be0d2b64659309c800718f07dc62d4e82259c7ff9588a965d38831e94a76ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4072 (193rd) — An Act exempting the positions of police chief and fire chief in the city of Greenfield from the civil service law

By Representatives Whipps of Athol and Blais of Deerfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4072) of Susannah M. Whipps and Natalie M. Blais (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Greenfield be authorized to exempt the positions of police chief and fire chief in said town from the civil service law. 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)
• Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-08-28 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-08-31 Senate concurred
• 2023-09-26 Hearing scheduled for 10/03/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
• 2024-02-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-02-29 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-29 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-11 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-14 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-03-25 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-03-25 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-03-28 Enacted passage
• 2024-03-28 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-04-04 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 69 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/daa43c7f-104e-4127-b30e-b8faf8ca6046. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).