republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-4170.md

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Bill	An Act relative to the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough	By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4170) of Danielle W. Gregoire and Carmine Lawrence Gentile (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4170	Massachusetts H 4170 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	13	0	2025-05-29	2025-11-19	openstates	ocd-bill/39ca8e9f-2ce9-4e8a-a7bc-f62618dd7264	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4170	88a20491848c8263414b5378127e1198ba128453683424bcbc06733be2da16a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4170 (194th) — An Act relative to the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough

By Representatives Gregoire of Marlborough and Gentile of Sudbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4170) of Danielle W. Gregoire and Carmine Lawrence Gentile (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to a vacancy in the office of ward 7 councilor in the city of Marlborough. Election Laws. [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

• Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
• Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
• James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-29 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
• 2025-06-02 Senate concurred
• 2025-06-27 Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
• 2025-10-15 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-10-27 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-10-27 Rules suspended
• 2025-10-27 Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2025-10-30 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-11-10 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-11-10 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2025-11-12 Enacted passage
• 2025-11-13 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-11-19 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39ca8e9f-2ce9-4e8a-a7bc-f62618dd7264. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).