An Act establishing a review process of guidelines for managing recreational use of beaches to protect piping plovers, terns, and their habitats in Massachusetts

H5139 · Bill · docket HD5290

6 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-11-03	House	Referred to the committee on House Rules
2026-02-09	House	Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources
2026-02-19	Senate	Senate concurred
2026-02-24	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 03/04/2026 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in 222
2026-03-04	Joint	Hearing rescheduled to 03/04/2026 from 10:00 AM-11:15 AM in 222 and Virtual. Hearing updated to New End Time
2026-03-19	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

Environment and Natural Resources (J) · 2026-03-16 15:18 · Should the Committee report the following bill out favorably?

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
2026-03-04	Environment and Natural Resources (J)	222, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Suspend Rules	Rules (H)
Favorable	Environment and Natural Resources (J)

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.