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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Sunderland to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith"
description: "By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4003) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Sunderland be authorized to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4003"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4003 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-20"
last_action: "2024-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55003491-de37-429b-9584-c4dd7bf5f01d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4003"
source_hash: "ee4ebfe3217e4f4c3b4d9d27b070480f43995e4c3cc14ff222915a4a3b80eb93"
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 4003 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Sunderland to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith
By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4003) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Sunderland be authorized to continue the employment of fire department member Scott Smith. 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/193/H4003.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-07-20** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-24** Senate concurred
- **2023-08-09** Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-11-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-21** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-02-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-05-09** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-06** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-06-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-06-10** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-06-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55003491-de37-429b-9584-c4dd7bf5f01d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).