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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 relative to change the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Billerica to select board to exhibit gender neutrality"
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description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4847). September 21, 2020."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "191st"
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identifier: "H 4988"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4988 (191st)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 8
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2020-09-21"
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last_action: "2020-12-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c2e48d9-8406-4d3f-a21b-7a82a94c20b5"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4988"
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source_hash: "9676caa30075af1900d69eb51f0b5cbd5ef6f3bdfb9293ae4127c1af00b59e76"
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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 4988 (191st) — An Act relative to change the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Billerica to select board to exhibit gender neutrality
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Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4847). September 21, 2020.
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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/191/H4988.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
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- Marc T. Lombardo — cosponsor (person)
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- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-09-21** Substituted for H4847
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- **2020-09-21** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
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- **2020-09-24** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-11-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2020-11-25** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2020-11-30** Enacted `passage`
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- **2020-11-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2020-12-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 219 of the Acts of 2020 `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/6c2e48d9-8406-4d3f-a21b-7a82a94c20b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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