Files
2026-07-06 17:27:20 -04:00

68 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown

---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to authorize the mayor of the city of Haverhill to submit special legislation to increase the membership of the board of health from three members to five members"
description: "By Representative Vargas of Haverhill, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4057) of Andres X. Vargas (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Haverhill be authorized to increase the membership of the board of health in said city from three members to five members. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4057"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4057 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andres X. Vargas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-24"
last_action: "2026-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79a7eea4-c31d-439c-b163-fdd1053bbc07"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4057"
source_hash: "56e387817ae6a5d7261928b87bfc9b043bf6b9a7db3e8cd7ecd59954c628b3f4"
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 4057 (194th) — An Act to authorize the mayor of the city of Haverhill to submit special legislation to increase the membership of the board of health from three members to five members
By Representative Vargas of Haverhill, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4057) of Andres X. Vargas (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Haverhill be authorized to increase the membership of the board of health in said city from three members to five members. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4057.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Andres X. Vargas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-04-24** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-03** Hearing scheduled for 06/10/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-04-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 72 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79a7eea4-c31d-439c-b163-fdd1053bbc07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).