An Act further regulating the filling of vacancies on the city council relative to the office of ward councilor in the City of Marlborough

Filed by Danielle W. Gregoire · 1 cosponsor · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H5227 · Bill · docket HD5745

15 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2026-03-09	House	Referred to the committee on Election Laws
2026-03-12	Senate	Senate concurred
2026-03-12	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 03/24/2026 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
2026-04-08	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-04-23	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-04-23	House	Rules suspended
2026-04-23	House	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-05-18	House	Read third and passed to be engrossed
2026-05-19	Senate	Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2026-06-18	Senate	Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-07-27	Senate	Taken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-07-27	Senate	Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
2026-07-29	House	Enacted
2026-07-29	Senate	Enacted and laid before the Governor
2026-08-04	Executive	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 159 of the Acts of 2026

Election Laws (J) · 2026-04-02 15:00 · Poll/ Vote

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
2026-03-24	Election Laws (J)	A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Favorable	Election Laws (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)

In the order filed.

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.