Bill Commons

MA H 4243

enacted

An Act to amend the town charter of Ipswich

Massachusetts · 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did MA H 4243 pass?

Yes. MA H 4243 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-11-24): Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2025

What is MA H 4243 about?

By Representative Kassner of Hamilton and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4243) of Kristin E. Kassner (by vote of the town) relative to the town manager residency requirement in the town of Ipswich. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Description

By Representative Kassner of Hamilton and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4243) of Kristin E. Kassner (by vote of the town) relative to the town manager residency requirement in the town of Ipswich. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Introduced
—
Latest action
2025-11-24 — Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2025
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Kristin E. Kassnercosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-11-24

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 of the Acts of 2025

    executive-signature

  2. 2025-11-19

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

    passage

  3. 2025-11-19

    Enacted

    passage

  4. 2025-11-19

    House concurred in the Senate amendment

  5. 2025-11-13

    Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-11-13

    Passed to be engrossed

    passage

  7. 2025-11-13

    Amended (Tarr) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2719

    amendment-passage

  8. 2025-11-13

    Read third

    reading-3

  9. 2025-10-23

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

    reading-2

  10. 2025-10-06

    Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session

  11. 2025-10-02

    Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed

    passage,reading-3

  12. 2025-09-02

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

    reading-2

  13. 2025-09-02

    Rules suspended

  14. 2025-09-02

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  15. 2025-08-04

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

    committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee

  16. 2025-07-09

    Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1

  17. 2025-07-03

    Senate concurred

  18. 2025-06-30

    Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4243

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:22:56.590024Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=MA&identifier=H 4243. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.