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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members"
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description: "By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4404) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) relative to increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "193rd"
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identifier: "H 4404"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4404 (193rd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2024-02-15"
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last_action: "2024-11-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42f831cd-20dc-4233-b038-d94029314355"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4404"
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source_hash: "945a2e3e1f5130d69c5a75961d47dc3fb6286047034072614ef680ee9c293e60"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4404 (193rd) — An Act increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members
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By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4404) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) relative to increasing the town of Northfield Board of Sewer Commissioners from three to five members. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4404.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
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- Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-02-15** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-20** Senate concurred
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- **2024-03-08** Hearing scheduled for 03/08/2024 from 12:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
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- **2024-04-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-05-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2024-05-02** Rules suspended
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- **2024-05-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2024-05-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-10-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2024-10-15** Read third (title changed) `reading-3`
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- **2024-10-15** Amended (Comerford) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2959 `amendment-passage`
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- **2024-10-15** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
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- **2024-10-17** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2024-11-12** House concurred in the Senate amendment
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- **2024-11-14** Enacted `passage`
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- **2024-11-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2024-11-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 242 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42f831cd-20dc-4233-b038-d94029314355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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