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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to certain special revolving funds in the town of Athol"
description: "By Representative Whipps of Athol, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4401) of Susannah M. Whipps (by vote of the town) relative to certain special revolving funds in the town of Athol. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4401"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4401 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Susannah M. Whipps"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-08-11"
last_action: "2026-01-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72938dd0-da26-49ef-980b-e9e05b9454f8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4401"
source_hash: "aa0ff134003a15b3945fb2c609ff93f3e7f7dbea34995d3d4a4a14e71a3ccc97"
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 4401 (194th) — An Act relative to certain special revolving funds in the town of Athol
By Representative Whipps of Athol, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4401) of Susannah M. Whipps (by vote of the town) relative to certain special revolving funds in the town of Athol. 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/H4401.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Susannah M. Whipps — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-08-11** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-14** Senate concurred
- **2025-09-04** Hearing scheduled for 09/04/2025 from 03:10 PM-01:30 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-09-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-20** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-19** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-12-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-12-08** Read second `reading-2`
- **2025-12-08** Amended (Comerford) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2812 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-12-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2025-12-08** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-12** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2026-01-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-01-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 3 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/72938dd0-da26-49ef-980b-e9e05b9454f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).