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Bill	An Act exempting the position of deputy fire chief of the town of Chelmsford from the civil service law	By Representatives Cataldo of Concord and Arciero of Westford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 7B) of Simon Cataldo and James Arciero relative to exempting the position of deputy fire chief of the town of Chelmsford from the provisions of the civil service law. Public Service.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4179	Massachusetts H 4179 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2023-03-27	2024-06-12	openstates	ocd-bill/6e6909fa-5a46-4cf5-a74c-97784d5b3420	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4179	8811e74290bbcad5ffad3b342bc5d975929710df4ff63b5e266fa6fdb45d66b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4179 (193rd) — An Act exempting the position of deputy fire chief of the town of Chelmsford from the civil service law

By Representatives Cataldo of Concord and Arciero of Westford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 7B) of Simon Cataldo and James Arciero relative to exempting the position of deputy fire chief of the town of Chelmsford from the provisions of the civil service law. Public Service.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
• Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-27 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2023-11-09 Reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-11-13 Senate concurred
• 2023-11-22 Hearing scheduled for 11/27/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-03-18 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-04-16 Rules suspended
• 2024-04-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-09 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-13 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-05-30 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-05-30 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-06-03 Enacted passage
• 2024-06-03 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-06-12 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e6909fa-5a46-4cf5-a74c-97784d5b3420. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).