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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the amendment of M.G.L. c.32, section 4(2)(b) and 4(2)(c), solely as they relate to the calculation of Walter L. Guertin's pension"
description: "By Mr. Feeney, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1859) of Paul R. Feeney (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to the calculation of the pension of Walter L. Guertin. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "S 1859"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1859 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul R. Feeney"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2026-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ef707bd-220c-4cdc-96db-7864366944cc"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1859"
source_hash: "53b56af9d8bbff633665bd1376faad9286e5df88dd54ccd76b1170794c38e2e3"
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 S 1859 (194th) — An Act relative to the amendment of M.G.L. c.32, section 4(2)(b) and 4(2)(c), solely as they relate to the calculation of Walter L. Guertin's pension
By Mr. Feeney, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1859) of Paul R. Feeney (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to the calculation of the pension of Walter L. Guertin. 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/S1859.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Paul R. Feeney — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** House concurred
- **2025-05-01** Hearing scheduled for 05/07/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2025-07-31** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-09-29** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-10-27** Rules suspended
- **2025-10-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-02** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H5331) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-27** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-27** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2026-04-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 73 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/3ef707bd-220c-4cdc-96db-7864366944cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).