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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to city council vacancy"
description: "By Ms. Cronin of Easton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3709) of Claire D. Cronin (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to city council vacancies in the city of Brockton. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3709"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3709 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Claire D. Cronin"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-06"
last_action: "2021-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32b85339-f775-4a9a-8451-cbab926e4366"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3709"
source_hash: "1ee2139e81665154175ed0ba17ba51503a4cdcd284d47c8597e43cd06d9470ef"
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 3709 (192nd) — An Act relative to city council vacancy
By Ms. Cronin of Easton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3709) of Claire D. Cronin (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to city council vacancies in the city of Brockton. Election Laws. [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/192/H3709.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Claire D. Cronin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-05-06** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-07** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-13** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-05-13** Rules suspended
- **2021-05-13** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-05-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-06-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-06-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-06-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-06-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 17 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32b85339-f775-4a9a-8451-cbab926e4366`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).