republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4097.md

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Bill	An Act increasing the membership of the select board of the town of Merrimac from 3 members to 5 members	By Representative Shand of Newburyport and Senator Finegold, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4097) of Dawne Shand and Barry R. Finegold (by vote of the town) that the town of Merrimac be authorized to increase the number of select board members in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4097	Massachusetts H 4097 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2023-09-18	2024-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/953f92c0-8d05-48d4-b90c-460463ef3ebf	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4097	4d3b374ff0ed22015c3ffeffd5360b6105151517e2444da350e059ba31f48cf1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4097 (193rd) — An Act increasing the membership of the select board of the town of Merrimac from 3 members to 5 members

By Representative Shand of Newburyport and Senator Finegold, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4097) of Dawne Shand and Barry R. Finegold (by vote of the town) that the town of Merrimac be authorized to increase the number of select board members in 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

• Barry R. Finegold — cosponsor (person)
• Dawne Shand — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-09-18 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2023-09-21 Senate concurred
• 2023-10-09 Hearing scheduled for 10/17/2023 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
• 2023-12-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-01-16 Rules suspended
• 2024-01-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-05 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-03-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-18 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-03-18 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-21 Enacted passage
• 2024-03-21 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-03-27 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 62 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/953f92c0-8d05-48d4-b90c-460463ef3ebf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).