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Bill An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver as fire chief An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver as fire chief us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 4196 Massachusetts H 4196 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 4196 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of West Stockbridge to continue the employment of Steven Traver as fire chief

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
  • Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
  • Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-11-27 Reported from the committee on Public Service
  • 2023-11-27 New draft of H3865
  • 2023-11-27 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2023-12-07 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2023-12-07 Rules suspended
  • 2023-12-07 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2023-12-14 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2023-12-18 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2024-01-18 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2024-02-15 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2024-02-15 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-20 Enacted passage
  • 2024-02-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2024-02-29 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 32 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/410b90ab-21bd-4982-9340-2477967b9538. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).