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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Fitchburg to employ Kevin D. Roy as fire chief beyond the statutory retirement age"
description: "By Mr. Hay of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4071) of Stephan Hay (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Fitchburg be authorized to continue the employment of Kevin D. Roy as fire chief of the fire department of said city. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4071"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4071 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stephan Hay"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-09-12"
last_action: "2019-12-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c61bb537-e63e-4784-a9c4-518b5824ebde"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4071"
source_hash: "a186cbdb3c87b1dada0f005804b6deefb67ddefa009bdd62f6175c2d3a266cde"
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 4071 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city of Fitchburg to employ Kevin D. Roy as fire chief beyond the statutory retirement age
By Mr. Hay of Fitchburg, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4071) of Stephan Hay (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Fitchburg be authorized to continue the employment of Kevin D. Roy as fire chief of the fire department of said city. 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/H4071.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Stephan Hay — primary (person)
- Stephan Hay — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-09-12** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-16** Senate concurred
- **2019-09-23** Hearing scheduled for 09/26/2019 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2019-10-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-07** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-07** Read third (title change) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-12** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-11-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-11-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-12-06** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-12-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 143 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c61bb537-e63e-4784-a9c4-518b5824ebde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).