An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

Filed by Edward R. Philips · 1 cosponsor · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2025.

H4009 · Bill · docket HD4536

22 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-03-31	House	Referred to the committee on House Rules
2025-04-07	House	Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources
2025-04-10	Senate	Senate concurred
2025-04-23	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
2025-07-10	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-07-21	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2025-07-21	House	Rules suspended
2025-07-21	House	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2025-07-31	House	Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed
2025-08-04	Senate	Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules
2025-10-20	Senate	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
2025-10-20	Senate	Rules suspended
2025-10-20	Senate	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed
2025-10-23	Senate	Motion to reconsider prevailed
2025-10-23	Senate	Amendment (Senate Rules) rejected
2025-10-23	Senate	Ordered to a third reading
2025-10-23	Senate	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2025-10-27	House	Emergency preamble adopted
2025-10-27	Senate	Emergency preamble adopted
2025-10-27	House	Enacted
2025-10-30	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2025-11-06	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2025

2 amendments filed

2 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	Floor Amendment	Thomas P. Walsh	Adopted
Senate 1	An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon	Senate Committee on Rules	Adopted

2 committee votes

Environment and Natural Resources (J) · 2025-07-02 13:34 · Should the Committee report the following bill out favorably?

favorable · 10

adverse · 1

John R. Gaskey

Rules (S) · 2025-10-20 10:00 · Placed in the Orders of the Day

favorable · 6

reserve right · 1

Ryan C. Fattman

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
2025-05-06	Environment and Natural Resources (J)	A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Suspend Rules	Rules (H)
Favorable	Environment and Natural Resources (J)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly Drawn	Bills in the Third Reading (H)
Place in the OD with Recommended Amendment	Rules (S)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Michael F. Rush

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.