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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Fairhaven"
description: "By Representative Sylvia of Fairhaven and Senator Montigny, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4234) of Mark D. Sylvia and Mark C. Montigny (by vote of the town) that the town of Fairhaven be authorized to appoint retired police officers as special police officers in said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4234"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4234 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-06-23"
last_action: "2026-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd7c565c-c51e-40b2-8a24-219356125ef4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4234"
source_hash: "e96b271c1039f16fd979beeefd805e0afb299f3d1d2cf4d54cb59b443d5b50a6"
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 4234 (194th) — An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Fairhaven
By Representative Sylvia of Fairhaven and Senator Montigny, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4234) of Mark D. Sylvia and Mark C. Montigny (by vote of the town) that the town of Fairhaven be authorized to appoint retired police officers as special police officers in said town. Public Service. [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/H4234.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sylvia — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-06-23** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Senate concurred
- **2025-07-07** Hearing scheduled for 07/16/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-10-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-30** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-20** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-24** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-04-23** Read third (titled changed) `reading-3`
- **2026-04-23** Amended (Montigny) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2026-04-23** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-04-27** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-20** Rules suspended
- **2026-05-20** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2026-05-21** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-05-21** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 90 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd7c565c-c51e-40b2-8a24-219356125ef4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).