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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the town manager act of Arlington relative to the appointment and management of the town clerk"
description: "By Representative Garballey of Arlington and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4135) of Sean Garballey, Cindy F. Friedman and David M. Rogers (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment and management of the town clerk in the town of Arlington. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4135"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4135 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-12"
last_action: "2025-11-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22e9d43b-b65f-4027-b976-acb2b2da4639"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4135"
source_hash: "163b2270e5a5bb976873f525bcaee83a17ad45561d73de0db8fffb81f6ad2171"
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 4135 (194th) — An Act amending the town manager act of Arlington relative to the appointment and management of the town clerk
By Representative Garballey of Arlington and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4135) of Sean Garballey, Cindy F. Friedman and David M. Rogers (by vote of the town) relative to the appointment and management of the town clerk in the town of Arlington. 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/H4135.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Cindy F. Friedman — cosponsor (person)
- David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-05-12** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Senate concurred
- **2025-06-03** Hearing scheduled for 06/10/2025 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`
- **2025-07-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-24** 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
- **2025-11-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-10** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-11-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 69 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/22e9d43b-b65f-4027-b976-acb2b2da4639`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).