An Act fostering voter opportunities, trust, equity and security
Filed by Cynthia Stone Creem · 38 cosponsors · 192nd General Court · the legislature's own page
S459 · Bill · docket SD1002
9 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2021-03-29 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Election Laws |
| 2021-03-29 | House | House concurred |
| 2021-05-17 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing |
| 2021-07-21 | Senate | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means |
| 2021-09-30 | Senate | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting a new draft, see S2545 |
| 2021-09-30 | Senate | Order relative to subject matter adopted |
| 2021-09-30 | Senate | Placed in the Orders of the Day for Wednesday, October 6, 2021 |
| 2021-10-06 | Senate | Read second |
| 2021-10-06 | Senate | New draft substituted, as amended, see S2545 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted, as amended
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
|---|
| Senate 1 | An Act fostering voter opportunities, trust, equity and security | Senate Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted, as Amended |
1 committee vote
Ways and Means (S) · 2021-09-30 11:00 · Ought to pass – by substitution of a New Draft
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2021-05-19 | Election Laws (J) | Virtual Hearing, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Cosponsors
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.