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An Act authorizing the conveyance of a certain parcel of land in the town of Grafton for the Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center

Reported by House Committee on Ways and Means  ·  189th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 265 of the Acts of 2016.

H3973  ·  Bill

15 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2016-01-25HouseReported from the committee on House Ways and Means
2016-01-25HousePending new draft of H3844
2016-01-27HouseNew draft of H3844
2016-01-27HouseOrdered to a third reading
2016-06-09HouseRead third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed
2016-06-13SenateRead and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
2016-08-18SenateCommittee recommended ought to pass with an amendment
2016-08-18SenateRules suspended
2016-08-18SenateRead second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed
2016-08-22HouseReferred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
2016-09-06HouseHouse concurred in the Senate amendment
2016-09-08HouseEmergency preamble adopted
2016-09-08SenateEmergency preamble adopted
2016-09-08HouseEnacted
2016-09-16ExecutiveSigned by the Governor, Chapter 265 of the Acts of 2016

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (S)  ·  2016-08-18 10:35  ·  Ought to pass with an amendment

favorable · 15

no action · 3

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)
Favorable with AmendmentWays and Means (S)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)

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.