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An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date

Reported by House Committee on Ways and Means  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025.

H4531  ·  Bill

15 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-09-17HouseReported by the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-09-17HouseReported on a part of H4429
2025-09-17HouseCommittee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-09-17HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2025-09-17HouseRules suspended
2025-09-17HouseRead second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed
2025-09-18SenateRead, rules suspended, read second
2025-09-18SenateAmendment (Rausch) rejected
2025-09-18SenateOrdered to a third reading
2025-09-18SenateRead third (title change) and passed to be engrossed
2025-09-18HouseEmergency preamble adopted
2025-09-18SenateEmergency preamble adopted
2025-09-18HouseEnacted
2025-09-18SenateEnacted and laid before the Governor
2025-09-23ExecutiveSigned by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025

1 amendments filed

1 rejected

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
Senate 1Permanent Primary Date SolutionRebecca L. RauschRejected

1 committee vote

Ways and Means (H)  ·  2025-09-16 10:45  ·  H.4429 “An Act making appropriations for fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects” in part, as amended

favorable · 30

no action · 6

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
In PartWays and Means (H)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
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.