An Act to improve outdoor lighting, conserve energy, and increase dark-sky visibility
Filed by Cynthia Stone Creem · 5 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
S2243 · Bill · docket SD760
8 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-02-27 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy |
| 2025-02-27 | House | House concurred |
| 2025-09-15 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 09/25/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1 |
| 2025-09-25 | Joint | Hearing rescheduled to 09/25/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual. Hearing updated to New End Time |
| 2025-12-11 | Senate | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means |
| 2026-06-25 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2026-06-25 | Senate | Read second |
| 2026-06-25 | Senate | New draft substituted, see S3145 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
|---|
| Senate 1 | An Act to improve outdoor lighting, conserve energy, and increase dark-sky visibility | Senate Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted |
2 committee votes
Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy (J) · 2025-11-25 15:00 · Ought to pass
Ways and Means (S) · 2026-06-24 11:00 · Ought to pass with an amendment - New Draft
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
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Committee actions
Cosponsors
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.