Files
republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-3959.md
T
2026-07-06 17:27:20 -04:00

71 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown

---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton"
description: "By Representative Carey of Easthampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3959) of Daniel R. Carey and John C. Velis (with the approval of the mayor and the city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3959"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3959 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel R. Carey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-06-29"
last_action: "2024-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c38d2ff8-2092-49a3-aeda-43483ef93df2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3959"
source_hash: "12d176b1efbd46a6c89a2144eaa2642151277374b53cc5cf879548a06f44cf72"
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 3959 (193rd) — An Act amending the charter of the city of Easthampton
By Representative Carey of Easthampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3959) of Daniel R. Carey and John C. Velis (with the approval of the mayor and the city council) for legislation to amend the charter of the city of Easthampton. 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/193/H3959.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Daniel R. Carey — primary (person)
- John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-06-29** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-03** Senate concurred
- **2023-11-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-11-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-12-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-12-26** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-07** Read third `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2696 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-07** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-03-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 60 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c38d2ff8-2092-49a3-aeda-43483ef93df2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).