All Roll Calls
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Alice Hanlon Peisch (Democratic), Cynthia Stone Creem (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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The town can raise the 15-mile residency limit for its regular police and fire members. Any increase must be written into a union contract under state collective bargaining law. This applies only to Wellesley’s regular police and fire, not other town staff. The exact distance is set in bargaining. The law takes effect upon passage.
Alice Hanlon Peisch
Democratic • House
Cynthia Stone Creem
Democratic • Senate
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
All Roll Calls
Yes: 11 • No: 0
committee vote • 7/2/2025
Committee Favorable: Ought to Pass
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2025
Enacted and laid before the Governor
Enacted
Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
Taken out of the Orders of the Day
Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
Read third and passed to be engrossed
Read second and ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
Hearing scheduled for 06/10/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
Senate concurred
Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2025
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