An Act relative to expanding access to adoption

Filed by Joan B. Lovely · 13 cosponsors · 191st General Court · the legislature's own page

S63 · Bill · docket SD714

11 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2019-01-22	Senate	Referred to the committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities
2019-01-22	House	House concurred
2019-08-26	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2019 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in B-1
2020-03-12	Senate	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules
2020-07-31	Senate	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2020-07-31	Senate	Rules suspended
2020-07-31	Senate	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2020-07-31	Senate	Read third
2020-07-31	Senate	Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #269 (yeas 39 to Nays 0)
2020-07-31	House	Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2021-01-05	House	No further action taken

When	Chamber	Roll call	Question	Tally
2020-07-31	Senate	No. 269	Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #269 (yeas 39 to Nays 0)	39–0

Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities (J) · 2020-01-29 16:00 · Do you agree with the motion that this bill be reported favorably by committee?

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

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

Date	Committee	Where	Status
2019-09-10	Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities (J)	B-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Favorable	Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities (J)
Place in OD	Rules (S)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

In the order filed.

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.