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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III	By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4687) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Northfield be authorized to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III as fire chief of said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4687	Massachusetts H 4687 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2024-05-28	2024-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/7eddaeb6-ac6b-4623-8688-238bb0d42f4f	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4687	cf0ce35e6e12191d713278fa9f31d11d5a510beae8d76fef87e29d0525cc9c26	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4687 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Northfield to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III

By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4687) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Northfield be authorized to continue the employment of Floyd Dunnell, III as fire chief 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

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

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-28 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2024-05-30 Senate concurred
• 2024-06-04 Hearing scheduled for 06/07/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-07-03 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-30 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-07-30 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-30 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-15 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-16 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-08-26 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-29 Enacted passage
• 2024-08-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-06 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 195 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7eddaeb6-ac6b-4623-8688-238bb0d42f4f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).