An Act relative to the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Fairhaven
Filed by Mark D. Sylvia · 1 cosponsor · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
Became Chapter 90 of the Acts of 2026.
H4234 · Bill · docket HD4824
20 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-06-23 | House | Referred to the committee on Public Service |
| 2025-06-26 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-07-07 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 07/16/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2 |
| 2025-10-22 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2025-10-30 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2025-10-30 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2025-10-30 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2025-11-20 | House | Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed |
| 2025-11-24 | Senate | Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Read third (titled changed) |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Amended (Montigny) adopted |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-04-27 | House | Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading |
| 2026-05-20 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-05-20 | House | House concurred in the Senate amendment |
| 2026-05-21 | House | Enacted |
| 2026-05-21 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2026-05-29 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 90 of the Acts of 2026 |
2 amendments filed
2 adopted
1 committee vote
Public Service (J) · 2025-10-14 11:21 · Joint Committee on Public Service
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2025-07-16 | Public Service (J) | A-2, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Cosponsors
In the order filed.
Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.