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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Norwood to continue the employment of police chief William G. Brooks, III"
description: "By Representative Rogers of Norwood and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2356) of John H. Rogers and Michael F. Rush (by vote of the town) that the town of Norwood be authorized to continue the employment of police chief William G. Brooks, III. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 2356"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2356 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2020-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87e06ed0-4795-45c8-b159-9170986f8292"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2356"
source_hash: "418b746d2b73a1dc510f82580e2bea63c333b8d2844c9cc1d8d4627cb15bd382"
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 2356 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Norwood to continue the employment of police chief William G. Brooks, III
By Representative Rogers of Norwood and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2356) of John H. Rogers and Michael F. Rush (by vote of the town) that the town of Norwood be authorized to continue the employment of police chief William G. Brooks, III. Public Service. [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/191/H2356.pdf)
## Sponsors
- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Senate concurred
- **2019-04-02** Hearing scheduled for 04/09/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2019-05-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-20** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-08-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-08-15** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-03-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-03-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87e06ed0-4795-45c8-b159-9170986f8292`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).