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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act further regulating the appointment of the trustees of the public library of the city of Boston"
description: "By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3862) of Byron Rushing (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to further regulate the appointment of trustees of the public library of said city. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3862"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3862 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byron Rushing"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-31"
last_action: "2017-10-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac2adf88-2ad0-497a-b03f-3b80ef455b4a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3862"
source_hash: "3891c4b4b0d1eaacb44d5cc8fd3f8aeb3ca3184a5ffffd5f74def74dc84f49cb"
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 3862 (190th) — An Act further regulating the appointment of the trustees of the public library of the city of Boston
By Mr. Rushing of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3862) of Byron Rushing (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to further regulate the appointment of trustees of the public library of said city. 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/190/H3862.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Byron Rushing — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-07-31** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-03** Senate concurred
- **2017-09-05** Hearing scheduled for 09/12/2017 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-2
- **2017-09-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-09-18** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-25** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-28** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-10-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-10-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-10-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-10-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac2adf88-2ad0-497a-b03f-3b80ef455b4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).