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Bill	An Act regarding the continued employment of a certain employee of the town of Oxford	By Representatives McKenna of Sutton and Frost of Auburn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4797) of Joseph D. McKenna, Paul K. Frost and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) that the town of Oxford be authorized to continue the employment of Craig Gagner, a member of the police department of said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4797	Massachusetts H 4797 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2024-06-26	2024-11-15	openstates	ocd-bill/0c4efcc2-4567-4a99-9156-aca991664adf	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4797	5ccc172f6c4ebc5cefc26b2f0d6691d5ef93fb2e20f5a5e1830e4d4d89f749fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4797 (193rd) — An Act regarding the continued employment of a certain employee of the town of Oxford

By Representatives McKenna of Sutton and Frost of Auburn, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4797) of Joseph D. McKenna, Paul K. Frost and Ryan C. Fattman (by vote of the town) that the town of Oxford be authorized to continue the employment of Craig Gagner, a member of the police department 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

• Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
• Paul K. Frost — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan C. Fattman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-26 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Senate concurred
• 2024-07-09 Hearing scheduled for 07/12/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-07-29 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-08-05 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-05 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-11-04 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-04 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-11-07 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-07 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-15 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 234 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c4efcc2-4567-4a99-9156-aca991664adf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).