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Bill	An Act establishing a charter for the city of Cambridge	By Representative Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4156) of Marjorie C. Decker (with the approval of the city council) for legislation to establish a charter for the city of Cambridge. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4156	Massachusetts H 4156 (194th)	bill		enacted	Marjorie C. Decker	1	21	0	2025-05-27	2025-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/9d5d12a9-49b1-4e76-9837-07039d74431b	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4156	4b98c46c00738ea29fb45add4ba69430e3cf8f9c84932b1af5634fe2f9407e16	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4156 (194th) — An Act establishing a charter for the city of Cambridge

By Representative Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4156) of Marjorie C. Decker (with the approval of the city council) for legislation to establish a charter for the city of Cambridge. 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

• Marjorie C. Decker — primary (person)
• Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Owens — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-27 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2025-05-29 Senate concurred
• 2025-06-17 Hearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2025-07-16 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-28 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-07-28 Rules suspended
• 2025-07-28 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-08-11 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-08-14 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-09-08 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-09-08 Read second reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Amended (DiDomenico) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2598 amendment-passage
• 2025-09-08 Ordered to a third reading
• 2025-09-08 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2025-09-11 House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
• 2025-09-11 Rules suspended
• 2025-09-11 Senate concurred in the House further amendment
• 2025-09-11 Enacted passage
• 2025-09-11 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-09-16 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 27 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d5d12a9-49b1-4e76-9837-07039d74431b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).