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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the town of Bourne"
description: "By Representative Vieira of Falmouth and Senator deMacedo, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3918) of David T. Vieira, Viriato M. deMacedo and Randy Hunt (by vote of the town) that the town of Bourne be authorized to amend the charter of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3918"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3918 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-09-18"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1131e37f-1ab6-45a2-b4a5-38367c6afcf4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3918"
source_hash: "6ad81afe8db9b47e71736eac6e00d9f20895aebfe61dd4a083bfcecb2871674c"
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 3918 (190th) — An Act amending the charter of the town of Bourne
By Representative Vieira of Falmouth and Senator deMacedo, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3918) of David T. Vieira, Viriato M. deMacedo and Randy Hunt (by vote of the town) that the town of Bourne be authorized to amend the charter of said town. 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/H3918.pdf)
## Sponsors
- David T. Vieira — cosponsor (person)
- Randy Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Viriato M. deMacedo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-09-18** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-21** Senate concurred
- **2017-10-24** Hearing scheduled for 10/31/2017 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2017-10-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-11-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-12-07** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-12-11** Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-01-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-02-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1131e37f-1ab6-45a2-b4a5-38367c6afcf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).