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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act concerning the appointment of retired Salem firefighters as special firefighters within the city of Salem"
description: "By Representative Tucker of Salem and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4265) of Paul F. Tucker and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Salem be authorized to appoint retired Salem firefighters as special firefighters in said city. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4265"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4265 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-11-22"
last_action: "2022-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8a17f1-6823-41ed-ac1e-e25d0f2c9c96"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4265"
source_hash: "de704b3f95ca404881057a6e534bb781bb4ea47b7732490a70017e30b925fc7f"
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 4265 (192nd) — An Act concerning the appointment of retired Salem firefighters as special firefighters within the city of Salem
By Representative Tucker of Salem and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4265) of Paul F. Tucker and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Salem be authorized to appoint retired Salem firefighters as special firefighters in 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/192/H4265.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
- Paul F. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-11-22** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-11-24** Senate concurred
- **2021-12-22** Hearing scheduled for 01/04/2022 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-21** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-04-21** Rules suspended
- **2022-04-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-22** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 204 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/5a8a17f1-6823-41ed-ac1e-e25d0f2c9c96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).