Massachusetts legislation · 194th General Court
Massachusetts H4201: An Act relative to changing the two-year elected term for the Mayor of Chicopee to a four-year elected term
Status: Passed one chamber, June 11, 2026
What the bill says
From the introduced text, June 5, 2025:
SECTION 1. At the next annual municipal election in the City of Chicopee, and at such election in every fourth year thereafter, the mayor shall be elected by the qualified voters of the City voting in their respective precincts. The mayor shall be elected by ballot and shall hold office for four years from the first Monday in January following the election at which they were elected, and until a successor is elected and qualified. SECTION 2. Chapter 144 of the acts of 1917 is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. So much of the charter of said City and of the amendments thereto as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Chicopee, present and voting therein at the state election in the current year.
Sponsors
- Shirley Arriaga (D) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Read second and ordered to a third reading
- : Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- : Read third, amended 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 for a second reading
- : Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- : Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
- : Senate concurred
- : Referred to the committee on Election Laws
Votes
- Committee Vote - Joint Committee on Election Laws (August 13, 2025): 9 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is H4201?
- H4201 is a bill in the Massachusetts Legislature (194th General Court): An Act relative to changing the two-year elected term for the Mayor of Chicopee to a four-year elected term.
- What is the status of H4201?
- Passed one chamber as of June 11, 2026. Latest action: Read second and ordered to a third reading (June 11, 2026).
- Who sponsored H4201?
- Shirley Arriaga (D).
- Where is the official record for H4201?
- On the Massachusetts Legislature website: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4201
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