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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Warren to continue the employment of Steven Perkins	By Representative Smola of Warren and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4215) of Todd M. Smola and Jacob R. Oliveira (by vote of the town) that the town of Warren be authorized to continue the employment of Steven Perkins, a member of the fire department of said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4215	Massachusetts H 4215 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2023-12-14	2024-12-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d152f1ee-e6eb-46a4-b9a8-bf8e6c4481f5	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4215	bf7f171b1e4a24c73d2b32d73ddc4007e7629d00cade84278e1aa7347a5a8f15	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4215 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Warren to continue the employment of Steven Perkins

By Representative Smola of Warren and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4215) of Todd M. Smola and Jacob R. Oliveira (by vote of the town) that the town of Warren be authorized to continue the employment of Steven Perkins, a member of the fire department 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

• Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
• Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-14 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-12-18 Senate concurred
• 2024-01-11 Hearing scheduled for 01/16/2024 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
• 2024-06-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-12-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-12-12 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-12-16 Enacted passage
• 2024-12-16 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-12-19 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 262 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d152f1ee-e6eb-46a4-b9a8-bf8e6c4481f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).