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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the appointment of retired firefighters as special firefighters in the city of Quincy"
description: "An Act authorizing the appointment of retired firefighters as special firefighters in the city of Quincy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4666"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4666 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-28"
last_action: "2024-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/682f7579-fce9-46d1-a368-d92e4066d622"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4666"
source_hash: "917557b64b61da4327a096f5658b42e7e3d4ecb2c64676bd5e79f8d2c9886c38"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 4666 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the appointment of retired firefighters as special firefighters in the city of Quincy
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4666.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- John F. Keenan — cosponsor (person)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-05-28** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2024-05-28** New draft of H4535
- **2024-05-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-06-13** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-08-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 187 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/682f7579-fce9-46d1-a368-d92e4066d622`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).