An Act to amend the town of Natick home rule charter

H3898 · Bill · docket HD4398

21 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-03-13	House	Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
2025-03-17	Senate	Senate concurred
2025-05-05	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2025-07-14	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-07-28	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
2025-07-30	House	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2025-09-15	House	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2025-09-18	Senate	Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-02-05	Senate	The report was accepted
2026-02-05	Senate	Taken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-02-05	Senate	Read third (title changed)
2026-02-05	Senate	Bills in the Third Reading report accepted, see S2953
2026-02-05	Senate	Passed to be engrossed
2026-02-09	House	Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
2026-02-26	House	Rules suspended
2026-02-26	House	House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment
2026-03-02	Senate	Rules suspended
2026-03-02	Senate	Senate concurred in the further House amendment
2026-03-02	House	Enacted
2026-03-05	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2026-03-12	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2026

2 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	Floor Amendment	Thomas P. Walsh	Adopted
Senate 1	An Act to amend the town of Natick home rule charter	Senate Committee on Bills in the Third Reading	Adopted

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
2025-05-13	Municipalities and Regional Government (J)	B-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Favorable	Municipalities and Regional Government (J)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (H)
BTR Report	Bills in the Third Reading (S)
Correctly Drawn	Bills 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.