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Senate 2211 - Bill relative to authorizing the Commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, on behalf of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the towns of Saugus and Wakefield to grant easements to Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 11/05/07 S Laid before the Governor -SJs 912-913

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All Bill Actions

  • 04/17/07 S Reported from the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
  • 04/17/07 S New draft of S59
  • 04/17/07 S Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets -SJ 168
  • 08/09/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass
  • 08/09/07 S Referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means -SJ 674
  • 09/13/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass
  • 09/13/07 S Rules suspended
  • 09/13/07 S Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -SJ 719
  • 09/17/07 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means -HJ 648
  • 10/17/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass with certain amendments and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendments pending
  • 10/17/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendments pending
  • 10/17/07 H Rules suspended
  • 10/17/07 H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading -HJs 745-746
  • 10/18/07 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 758
  • 10/22/07 S Rules suspended
  • 10/22/07 S Senate concurred in the House amendment -SJs 877-878
  • 10/24/07 H Emergency preamble adopted -HJ 771
  • 10/25/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 887
  • 10/25/07 H Enacted - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 195) -HJ 779
  • 11/05/07 S Enacted - 37 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 125)
  • 11/05/07 S Laid before the Governor -SJs 912-913

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