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Senate 2157 - Petition of Marc R. Pacheco and Susan Williams Gifford (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to provision of health insurance to surviving spouses of long-term employees of the town of Wareham.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 06/20/08 G Signed by the Lieutenant-Governor, Acting Governor, Chapter 146 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • Marc R. Pacheco

All Bill Actions

  • 03/19/07 S Referred to the committee on Public Service -SJ 93
  • 03/20/07 H House concurred -HJ 140
  • Public Hearing date Sep 20 am at 10:30 in Room B-2
  • 11/08/07 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 924
  • 11/15/07 S Read second and ordered to a third reading
  • 11/15/07 S Rules suspended
  • 11/15/07 S Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -SJ 954
  • 11/19/07 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 879
  • 01/15/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading -HJ 990
  • 01/16/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 996
  • 06/09/08 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 1562
  • 06/11/08 H Enacted -HJ 1572
  • 06/11/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1890
  • 06/20/08 G Signed by the Lieutenant-Governor, Acting Governor, Chapter 146 of the Acts of 2008

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Bills are the most common form of proposals for laws. In order to become a law, a bill must be approved by a majority vote in both the House and the Senate, and then must be approved by the Governor.