republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4768.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the city of Springfield to continue the employment of police officer Lawrence E. Akers	An Act authorizing the city of Springfield to continue the employment of police officer Lawrence E. Akers	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4768	Massachusetts H 4768 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	13	0	2024-06-24	2024-08-07	openstates	ocd-bill/25a17122-0383-4fee-9805-9fbe2d9425ef	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4768	cabf5d9d6efc78ae89d86a210afdfa8dff909c5e44adb0973fa54d8feef1c5a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4768 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city of Springfield to continue the employment of police officer Lawrence E. Akers

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)
• Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
• Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Carlos González — cosponsor (person)
• Orlando Ramos — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-24 Reported from the committee on Public Service
• 2024-06-24 New draft of H4482
• 2024-06-24 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-15 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-07-15 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-15 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-07-29 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-07-29 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-07-31 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-07-31 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-07-31 Enacted passage
• 2024-07-31 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-08-07 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 157 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25a17122-0383-4fee-9805-9fbe2d9425ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).