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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act Establishing the Appointed Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Ayer"
description: "By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4077) of Jennifer E. Benson and James B. Eldridge (by vote of the town) that the town of Ayer be authorized to establish an appointed position of town clerk in said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4077"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4077 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer E. Benson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-14"
last_action: "2018-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c6ac500-2824-4263-8ddc-37b05582ee27"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4077"
source_hash: "aad3330c039e8c62c980a59b4da0ed1488869f9703294e1440c2cf6dd41c751c"
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 4077 (190th) — An Act Establishing the Appointed Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Ayer
By Ms. Benson of Lunenburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4077) of Jennifer E. Benson and James B. Eldridge (by vote of the town) that the town of Ayer be authorized to establish an appointed position of town clerk in 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/H4077.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Jennifer E. Benson — primary (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-14** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-18** Senate concurred
- **2018-01-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-18** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-02-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-03-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-04-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 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/6c6ac500-2824-4263-8ddc-37b05582ee27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).