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An Act relative to election ballots

Filed by Richard M. Haggerty  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H837  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD3674

7 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-02-27HouseReferred to the committee on Election Laws
2025-02-27SenateSenate concurred
2025-06-10JointHearing scheduled for 06/17/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2025-09-02HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-10-06HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
2025-10-08HouseRules suspended
2025-10-08HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading

1 committee vote

Election Laws (J)  ·  2025-08-13 15:40  ·  Poll/Vote

favorable · 9

reserve right · 2

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
2025-06-17Election Laws (J)B-1, 24 Beacon Street, BostonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
FavorableElection Laws (J)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (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.