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Senate 2242 - Bill relative to the Salem State College Assistance Corporation.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 12/28/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 225 of the Acts of 2007

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All Bill Actions

  • 05/17/07 S Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
  • 05/17/07 S Recommended new draft for S715
  • 05/17/07 S Rules suspended
  • 05/17/07 S Substituted for S715
  • 05/17/07 S Ordered to a third reading
  • 05/17/07 S Read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 235
  • 05/24/07 H Read
  • 05/24/07 H Rules suspended
  • 05/24/07 H Referred to the committee on House Rules -HJ 425
  • 06/07/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass
  • 06/07/07 H Rules suspended
  • 06/07/07 H Read second
  • 06/07/07 H Referred to the committee on House Ways and Means -HJ 454
  • 11/07/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 815
  • 11/14/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting the question, being on ordering the bill to a third reading -HJ 836
  • 11/15/07 H Ordered to a third reading -HJ 844
  • 12/20/07 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 952
  • 12/21/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 12/21/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJs 1042-1043
  • 12/21/07 H Enacted -HJ 955
  • 12/21/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJs 1042-1043
  • 12/28/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 225 of the Acts of 2007

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