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Senate 536 - Petition of Pamela P. Resor for legislation relating to the distribution and sale of household cleaning products containing phosphorous.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 02/21/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • Pamela P. Resor

All Bill Actions

  • 01/10/07 S Referred to the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
  • 01/10/07 H House concurred
  • Public Hearing date May 7 pm at 2:00 in Room A-1
  • 06/19/07 S Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means -SJ 499
  • 09/26/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass
  • 09/26/07 S Rules suspended
  • 09/26/07 S Read second and ordered to a third reading -SJ 812
  • 09/27/07 S Read third (title changed)
  • 09/27/07 S Passed to be engrossed - 32 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 117) -SJ 818
  • 10/01/07 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means -HJ 688
  • 02/06/08 H Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor the text contained in H4523
  • 02/06/08 H Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
  • 02/06/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment previously recommended by the committee on Ways and Means pending
  • 02/06/08 H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading
  • 02/06/08 H Rules suspended
  • 02/06/08 H Read third (title changed)
  • 02/06/08 H Passed to be engrossed - 154 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 252) -HJ 1045
  • 02/12/08 S Motion to suspend rules negatived
  • 02/12/08 S Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 1221
  • 02/13/08 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 02/13/08 S Senate concurred in the House amendment -SJ 1225
  • 02/13/08 H Enacted - 148 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 262) -HJ 1066
  • 02/14/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1233
  • 02/21/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2008

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