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Bill	An Act relative to the appointment of the police chief in the city of Fall River	By Representative Fiola of Fall River and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4214) of Carole A. Fiola (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the appointment of the police chief in the city of Fall River. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4214	Massachusetts H 4214 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2025-06-09	2026-01-29	openstates	ocd-bill/bb41e189-7b73-4730-bb81-1c963ea0b096	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4214	172ceb2d555fe57821414f232d858aecbc9dd37f9d273dc65b6da7251f82cb28	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4214 (194th) — An Act relative to the appointment of the police chief in the city of Fall River

By Representative Fiola of Fall River and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4214) of Carole A. Fiola (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to the appointment of the police chief in the city of Fall River. 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

• Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-09 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 Senate concurred
• 2025-09-05 Hearing scheduled for 09/17/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-2
• 2025-09-17 Hearing rescheduled to 09/17/2025 from 01:00 PM-02:00 PM in B-2 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
• 2025-11-19 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-11-24 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-11-24 Rules suspended
• 2025-11-24 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-12-18 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-12-22 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2026-01-15 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2026-01-15 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2026-01-20 Enacted passage
• 2026-01-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-01-29 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 10 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb41e189-7b73-4730-bb81-1c963ea0b096. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).