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Bill	An Act amending the appointment and election restrictions on finance committee and capital planning members in the town of Newbury	By Representative Kassner of Hamilton and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4742) of Kristin E. Kassner and Bruce E. Tarr (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment and election restrictions on finance committee and capital planning members in the town of Newbury. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4742	Massachusetts H 4742 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2024-06-10	2024-12-11	openstates	ocd-bill/57cbd541-2cae-4492-8865-4d5005758f40	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4742	6702993dfd13d36fcbe82225259c122150d8ada82308160ba1a2cddf5eae7e0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4742 (193rd) — An Act amending the appointment and election restrictions on finance committee and capital planning members in the town of Newbury

By Representative Kassner of Hamilton and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4742) of Kristin E. Kassner and Bruce E. Tarr (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment and election restrictions on finance committee and capital planning members in the town of Newbury. 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

• Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Kristin E. Kassner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-10 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 Senate concurred
• 2024-06-18 Hearing scheduled for 06/18/2024 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-07-01 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-07-25 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-25 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-12 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-15 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-11-27 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-27 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-12-02 Enacted passage
• 2024-12-02 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-12-11 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 255 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57cbd541-2cae-4492-8865-4d5005758f40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).