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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting the positions of police chief and police captain in the city of Leominster from the civil service law"
description: "By Representative Higgins of Leominster and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3756) of Natalie M. Higgins and John J. Cronin (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Leominster be authorized to exempt the positions of police and police captain from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3756"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3756 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-10"
last_action: "2022-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7585fb79-871f-40bf-8e63-5b1e09882902"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3756"
source_hash: "75915fa8b111ce3b685e86a716149fe0999eca3f45a5fe28a8cad1112b836e0c"
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 3756 (192nd) — An Act exempting the positions of police chief and police captain in the city of Leominster from the civil service law
By Representative Higgins of Leominster and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3756) of Natalie M. Higgins and John J. Cronin (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Leominster be authorized to exempt the positions of police and police captain from the civil service law. 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/192/H3756.pdf)
## Sponsors
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Higgins — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-05-10** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-25** Hearing scheduled for 06/02/2021 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-07-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-15** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-10-24** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-10-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 256 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7585fb79-871f-40bf-8e63-5b1e09882902`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).