# Massachusetts H 4004: An Act validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025

Massachusetts H 4004, An Act validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Maura T. Healey; status signed, last action 2025-08-20 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4004
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-04-03
- Last action: 2025-08-20, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025
- Sponsor: Maura T. Healey
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Election Laws, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Hardwick special election results confirmed: benefit, low. This law confirms the Town of Hardwick’s special election held January 18, 2025. All votes and town actions from that election are legal and remain in effect. They count as if the election happened within 90 days after the town meeting that adopted the appropriation. This applies even if other stat…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Maura T. Healey

## Actions (13)

- 2025-08-20: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025
- 2025-08-18: Enacted (House)
- 2025-08-14: Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed (Senate)
- 2025-08-14: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate)
- 2025-07-24: Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate)
- 2025-07-23: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House)
- 2025-07-14: Read second and ordered to a third reading (House)
- 2025-07-14: Rules suspended (House)
- 2025-07-14: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (House)
- 2025-07-10: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House)
- 2025-04-28: Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1 (legislature)
- 2025-04-07: Senate concurred (Senate)
- 2025-04-03: Read; and referred to the committee on Election Laws (House)

## Bill text

- Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025, 2025-08-20: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4004.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)

## Sources
- [Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4004.pdf)

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- [H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police ch…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5435-194)
- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
- [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194)
- [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4004-194 (as of 2026-11-01).