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Senate 1618 - Petition of Robert A. O'Leary and Eric Turkington for legislation to authorize the Dukes county contributory retirmentsystem to grant certain retirement benefits.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 11/19/07 S Accompanied a new draft, see S2421 -SJ 964

Sponsor:

  • Robert A. O'Leary

All Bill Actions

  • 01/11/07 S Referred to the committee on Public Service
  • 01/11/07 H House concurred
  • Public Hearing date Nov 1 am at 10:30 in Room B-2
  • 11/19/07 S Accompanied a new draft, see S2421 -SJ 964

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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.