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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act changing the name of the Board of Selectmen of the town of Gosnold to Selectboard"
description: "By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3842) of Dylan A. Fernandes and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) relative to changing the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Gosnold to selectboard. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3842"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3842 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-05-11"
last_action: "2023-11-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6e55a03-5bb2-48e3-a0ae-4f033b2beb30"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3842"
source_hash: "06a71b8fdb589cc39b612cf1301f2177081988ee81c91eed752c4bc88020ec58"
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 3842 (193rd) — An Act changing the name of the Board of Selectmen of the town of Gosnold to Selectboard
By Representative Fernandes of Falmouth and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3842) of Dylan A. Fernandes and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) relative to changing the name of the board of selectmen of the town of Gosnold to selectboard. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/193/H3842.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-05-11** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-12** Hearing scheduled for 06/20/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-07-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-10** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-08-28** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-31** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-11-06** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-11-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-08** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-11-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-11-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6e55a03-5bb2-48e3-a0ae-4f033b2beb30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).