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Senate 2255 - Bill relative to pension divestment.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 11/02/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 151 of the Acts of 2007

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All Bill Actions

  • 06/04/07 S Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
  • 06/04/07 S Recommended new draft for S2217
  • 06/04/07 S Rules suspended
  • 06/04/07 S Substituted for S2217
  • 06/04/07 S Ordered to a third reading -SJ 475
  • 06/05/07 S Read third
  • 06/05/07 S Recommitted to the committee on Senate Ways and Means -SJ 479
  • 06/05/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2217
  • 06/05/07 S Rules suspended
  • 06/05/07 S Motion to lay on the table pending and postponed to the next session -SJ 479
  • 06/21/07 S Motion to lay on the table negatived
  • 06/21/07 S Laid over (under Senate Rule 31) until the next session -SJs 507-509
  • 06/26/07 S Amendment rejected - 8 YEAS to 28 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 56)
  • 06/26/07 S Amendment rejected - 7 YEAS to 29 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 57)
  • 06/26/07 S Amendment rejected
  • 06/26/07 S Pending Ways and Means new text (S2217) considered
  • 06/26/07 S Bills in the Third Reading discharged
  • 06/26/07 S Pending Ways and Means new text (S2217) adopted
  • 06/26/07 S Passed to be engrossed - 36 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 58) -SJs 524-527
  • 06/27/07 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means -HJ 498
  • 07/19/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of H4172
  • 07/19/07 H Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending -HJ 551
  • 07/23/07 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 pending -HJ 558
  • 07/26/07 H Rules suspended
  • 07/26/07 H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading -HJs 567-568
  • 09/27/07 H Read third
  • 09/27/07 H Amendment rejected - 32 YEAS to 124 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 171)
  • 09/27/07 H Point of Order - decision of the Chair sustained - 135 YEAS to 21 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 172)
  • 09/27/07 H Amendment rejected - 53 YEAS to 101 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 173)
  • 09/27/07 H Passed to be engrossed - 154 YEAS to 2 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 174) -HJs 684-686
  • 10/11/07 S Rules suspended
  • 10/11/07 S Senate concurred in the House amendment -SJ 848
  • 10/17/07 H Rules not suspended - 20 YEAS to 135 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 188)
  • 10/17/07 H Enacted - 155 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 189) -HJs 747-748
  • 10/23/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJs 884-885
  • 11/02/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 151 of the Acts of 2007

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