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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act extending residency requirements for members of the regular police or fire departments and fire alarm division of the city of Newton"
description: "By Representative Schwartz of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2335) of Greg Schwartz, John J. Lawn, Jr. and Amy Mah Sangiolo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to residency requirements for members of the regular police or fire departments and fire alarm division of the city of Newton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 2335"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2335 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Schwartz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-12-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a55c541-2e7e-48ca-bf97-368966a68ba2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2335"
source_hash: "d45c6dda3bf7b6adb5f030bcaea3ae77a0a458eb7b1f813cef574c6823259d59"
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 2335 (194th) — An Act extending residency requirements for members of the regular police or fire departments and fire alarm division of the city of Newton
By Representative Schwartz of Newton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2335) of Greg Schwartz, John J. Lawn, Jr. and Amy Mah Sangiolo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to residency requirements for members of the regular police or fire departments and fire alarm division of the city of Newton. 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/194/H2335.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Greg Schwartz — primary (person)
- Amy Mah Sangiolo — cosponsor (person)
- Cynthia Stone Creem — cosponsor (person)
- John J. Lawn, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2025-07-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-11-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 83 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a55c541-2e7e-48ca-bf97-368966a68ba2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).