Became Chapter 38 of the Acts of 2026.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-11 | House | Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government |
| 2025-09-15 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-09-23 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 09/23/2025 from 02:00 PM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only |
| 2025-10-14 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2025-11-06 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2025-11-06 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2025-11-06 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2025-12-18 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2025-12-22 | Senate | Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session |
| 2026-01-29 | Senate | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-03-02 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2026-03-02 | Senate | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-03-05 | House | Enacted |
| 2026-03-05 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2026-03-12 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 38 of the Acts of 2026 |
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-23 | Municipalities and Regional Government (J) | Written Testimony Only, 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) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (S) |
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.