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An Act to guarantee a tenant’s first right of refusal

Filed by Jay D. Livingstone  ·  34 cosponsors  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H1544  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD1925

5 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-02-27HouseReferred to the committee on Housing
2025-02-27SenateSenate concurred
2025-11-07JointHearing scheduled for 11/19/2025 from 11:00 AM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
2026-01-12HouseAccompanied by H1577
2026-01-12HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

1 committee vote

Housing (J)  ·  2025-12-12 16:00  ·  Poll on H.1544

favorable · 9

adverse · 1

reserve right · 1

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.

DateCommitteeWhereStatus
2025-11-19Housing (J)Gardner Auditorium, 24 Beacon Street, BostonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
FavorableHousing (J)

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.