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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to non-civil service public safety personnel in the town of Wellesley"
description: "By Representative Peisch of Wellesley and Senator Creem, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4140) of Alice Hanlon Peisch (by vote of the town) that the town of Wellesley be authorized to increase the 15-mile residency limit to certain non-civil service public safety personnel. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4140"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4140 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-12"
last_action: "2025-10-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8515672f-b32e-4902-b3ee-e80bff26c5a4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4140"
source_hash: "9b66808e81823ba7467fff67562138240bc96253cb32238a7fffea3e2eea6671"
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 4140 (194th) — An Act relative to non-civil service public safety personnel in the town of Wellesley
By Representative Peisch of Wellesley and Senator Creem, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4140) of Alice Hanlon Peisch (by vote of the town) that the town of Wellesley be authorized to increase the 15-mile residency limit to certain non-civil service public safety personnel. 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/H4140.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-12** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** 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`
- **2025-07-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-23** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-21** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-10-16** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-10-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-10-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8515672f-b32e-4902-b3ee-e80bff26c5a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).