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Bill	An Act increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members	By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4404) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) relative to increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4404	Massachusetts H 4404 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	18	0	2024-02-15	2024-11-22	openstates	ocd-bill/42f831cd-20dc-4233-b038-d94029314355	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4404	945a2e3e1f5130d69c5a75961d47dc3fb6286047034072614ef680ee9c293e60	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4404 (193rd) — An Act increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members

By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4404) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) relative to increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members. 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

• Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
• Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Senate concurred
• 2024-03-08 Hearing scheduled for 03/08/2024 from 12:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-04-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-02 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-05-02 Rules suspended
• 2024-05-02 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-10-15 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-10-15 Read third (title changed) reading-3
• 2024-10-15 Amended (Comerford) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2959 amendment-passage
• 2024-10-15 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-10-17 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-11-12 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-11-14 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-14 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 242 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42f831cd-20dc-4233-b038-d94029314355. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).