republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-4379.md

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Bill	An Act amending the charter of the city of Greenfield	By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4379) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Greenfield to amend its charter. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4379	Massachusetts H 4379 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2025-08-07	2026-01-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ec513b6f-a78c-4dc5-bae4-b484b9d3a3d4	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4379	37d4e4f741e09874f8ec77f1cdcd3fcb81302c1e63ba16938965c25f5987d65e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4379 (194th) — An Act amending the charter of the city of Greenfield

By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4379) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Greenfield to amend its charter. 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

• Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
• Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-08-07 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2025-08-11 Senate concurred
• 2025-09-04 Hearing scheduled for 09/04/2025 from 03:10 PM-01:30 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2025-09-22 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-10-16 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-10-16 Rules suspended
• 2025-10-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-11-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-12-01 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2026-01-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2026-01-12 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2026-01-15 Enacted passage
• 2026-01-15 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-01-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec513b6f-a78c-4dc5-bae4-b484b9d3a3d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).