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An Act repealing an ill-considered family law statute

Filed by John R. Gaskey  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H1722  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD4246

5 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-02-27HouseReferred to the committee on The Judiciary
2025-02-27SenateSenate concurred
2025-04-18JointHearing scheduled for 04/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
2025-07-30HouseCommittee recommended ought NOT to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-09-15HousePlaced in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (under the last sentence of Rule 7A), the question being on acceptance

1 committee vote

Judiciary (J)  ·  2025-07-21 12:46  ·  H1722, "An Act repealing an ill-considered family law statute"

adverse · 11

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
2025-04-22Judiciary (J)A-2, 24 Beacon Street, BostonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
AdverseJudiciary (J)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (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.