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An Act relative to the charter in the city of Lynn

Filed by Daniel Cahill  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2025.

H4149  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD4714

19 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-05-19HouseReferred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
2025-05-20SenateSenate concurred
2025-06-17JointHearing scheduled for 06/24/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2025-07-16HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-07-31HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2025-07-31HouseRules suspended
2025-07-31HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading
2025-09-22HouseRead third, amended, and passed to be engrossed
2025-09-25SenateRead; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2025-10-23SenateRead second and ordered to a third reading
2025-11-03SenateTaken out of the Orders of the Day
2025-11-03SenateRead third
2025-11-03SenateAmended (Crighton) by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2693
2025-11-03SenatePassed to be engrossed
2025-11-05HouseReferred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
2025-11-26HouseHouse concurred in the Senate amendment
2025-12-01HouseEnacted
2025-12-01SenateEnacted and laid before the Governor
2025-12-09ExecutiveSigned by the Governor, Chapter 84 of the Acts of 2025

2 amendments filed

2 adopted

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
House 1Floor AmendmentThomas P. WalshAdopted
Senate 1Revised CharterBrendan P. CrightonAdopted

1 committee vote

Municipalities and Regional Government (J)  ·  2025-07-02 11:11  ·  Ought to Pass

favorable · 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
2025-06-24Municipalities and Regional Government (J)B-1, 24 Beacon Street, BostonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
FavorableMunicipalities and Regional Government (J)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (S)
Correctly DrawnBills 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.