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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 allowing the city of Westfield to set the salary of the city clerk as the clerk of the city council through local process"
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description: "By Mr. Humason, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2197) of Donald F. Humason, Jr. and John C. Velis (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to allow the city of Westfield to set the salary of the city clerk as the clerk of the city council through local process. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
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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: "S 2197"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 2197 (191st)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Donald F. Humason, Jr."]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2019-04-11"
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last_action: "2020-02-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf5688f6-2938-4818-af67-eb0daba20c61"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2197"
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source_hash: "3d197c908e537e2114f8bd2ccc0df46c75554cd7a45af47832432046646b4213"
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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 S 2197 (191st) — An Act allowing the city of Westfield to set the salary of the city clerk as the clerk of the city council through local process
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By Mr. Humason, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2197) of Donald F. Humason, Jr. and John C. Velis (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to allow the city of Westfield to set the salary of the city clerk as the clerk of the city council through local process. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/191/S2197.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — primary (person)
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- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
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- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-04-11** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-16** House concurred
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- **2019-07-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-07-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2019-07-25** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read a third time and passed to be engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2019-07-29** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
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- **2019-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2019-07-31** Rules suspended
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- **2019-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2020-01-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2020-01-27** Enacted `passage`
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- **2020-01-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2020-02-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 16 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/cf5688f6-2938-4818-af67-eb0daba20c61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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