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An Act relative to the preparation of bilingual ballots in English and Haitian Creole in the city known as the town of Randolph

Filed by William J. Driscoll, Jr.  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

S509  ·  Bill  ·  docket SD2491

8 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2025-02-27SenateReferred to the committee on Election Laws
2025-02-27HouseHouse concurred
2025-06-10JointHearing scheduled for 06/17/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2025-07-31SenateBill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2025-10-16SenateRead second and ordered to a third reading
2026-01-22SenateTaken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-01-22SenateRead third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
2026-01-23HouseRead; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

1 committee vote

Election Laws (J)  ·  2025-07-24 17:00  ·  Ought to pass

favorable · 6

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)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (S)

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.