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House 1659 - Petition of Eugene L. O'Flaherty and Stephen Stat Smith relative to a sick leave bank for Karen White.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 03/21/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2007

Sponsor:

  • Eugene L. O'Flaherty

All Bill Actions

  • 01/11/07 H Referred to the committee on The Judiciary
  • 01/11/07 S Senate concurred
  • 03/01/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
  • 03/01/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 03/01/07 H Rules suspended
  • 03/01/07 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 120
  • 03/08/07 H Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed -HJ 127
  • 03/12/07 S Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed -SJs 84-85
  • 03/15/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 03/15/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 90
  • 03/15/07 H Enacted -HJ 134
  • 03/15/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 90
  • 03/21/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 26 of the Acts of 2007

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