republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4561.md

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Bill	An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton	An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4561	Massachusetts H 4561 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	13	0	2024-04-22	2024-06-18	openstates	ocd-bill/6e77b2c0-201a-4544-a8ce-275cb72a1b04	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4561	316db1b58607e3d5ea89a0aaf5c9f57f5f0b2981438ed8e4b111064bb0b03af8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4561 (193rd) — An Act relative to retired fire fighters in the city of Newton

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)
• Cynthia Stone Creem — cosponsor (person)
• Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth B. Balser — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-04-22 Reported from the committee on Public Service
• 2024-04-22 New draft of H3987
• 2024-04-22 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-29 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-04-29 Rules suspended
• 2024-04-29 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
• 2024-06-10 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-06-10 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-06-12 Enacted passage
• 2024-06-13 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 116 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e77b2c0-201a-4544-a8ce-275cb72a1b04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).