republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4244.md

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Bill	An Act changing the board of selectmen in the town of Dunstable to the select board	By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell and Senator Kennedy, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4244) of Margaret R. Scarsdale and Edward J. Kennedy (by vote of the town) that the town of Dunstable be authorized to change the name of the board of selectmen to the select board in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4244	Massachusetts H 4244 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2024-01-10	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/f0692f85-b51a-4554-a250-93d6e9686d12	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4244	397ed41a6c93b5021fd5ac0fcfb05348d2c195d0be0c78f2d7bb2fcec40b382d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4244 (193rd) — An Act changing the board of selectmen in the town of Dunstable to the select board

By Representative Scarsdale of Pepperell and Senator Kennedy, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4244) of Margaret R. Scarsdale and Edward J. Kennedy (by vote of the town) that the town of Dunstable be authorized to change the name of the board of selectmen to the select board 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

• Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret R. Scarsdale — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Senate concurred
• 2024-01-12 Hearing scheduled for 01/12/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-02-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-03-07 Rules suspended
• 2024-03-07 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-21 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-25 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-04-11 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-09-09 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-09-09 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-12 Enacted passage
• 2024-09-12 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-20 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 208 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0692f85-b51a-4554-a250-93d6e9686d12. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).