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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act authorizing the town of Falmouth to continue the employment of police chief Edward Dunne"
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description: "By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4548) of David T. Vieira, Viriato M. deMacedo and Dylan Fernandes (by vote of the town) that the town of Falmouth be authorized to continue the employment of police chief Edward Dunne. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "190th"
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identifier: "H 4548"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4548 (190th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["David T. Vieira"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2018-05-30"
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last_action: "2018-10-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8f309c1-ab81-4714-9ec3-1d3666e75579"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4548"
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source_hash: "1508e10884fa1227cb860b6bfbc950dfec639a39fc46caf59d88dee1800e848c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4548 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Falmouth to continue the employment of police chief Edward Dunne
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By Mr. Vieira of Falmouth, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4548) of David T. Vieira, Viriato M. deMacedo and Dylan Fernandes (by vote of the town) that the town of Falmouth be authorized to continue the employment of police chief Edward Dunne. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4548.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- David T. Vieira — primary (person)
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- Dylan Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
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- Viriato M. deMacedo — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-05-30** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
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- **2018-05-31** Senate concurred
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- **2018-06-08** Hearing scheduled for 06/13/2018 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in A-1
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- **2018-06-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-07-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2018-07-02** Rules suspended
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- **2018-07-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2018-09-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2018-09-13** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-09-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2018-09-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2018-09-27** Enacted `passage`
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- **2018-09-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2018-10-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 259 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8f309c1-ab81-4714-9ec3-1d3666e75579`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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