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Senate 2272 - Petition of Brian A. Joyce, Geraldine Creedon, Robert S. Creedon, Jr., David L. Flynn and other members of the General Court (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize The Board of Selectmen of Easton to lease a certain parcel of land.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 02/27/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading

Sponsor:

  • Brian A. Joyce

All Bill Actions

  • 06/21/07 S Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government -SJ 502
  • 06/25/07 H House concurred -HJ 492
  • Public Hearing date Sep 19 am at 11:30 in Room 437
  • 09/24/07 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 805
  • 10/16/07 S Read second and ordered to a third reading -SJ 857
  • 10/30/07 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 10/30/07 S Read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 897
  • 10/31/07 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 790
  • 10/31/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading -HJ 793
  • 11/07/07 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 820
  • 11/20/07 H Rules suspended
  • 11/20/07 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 897
  • 11/20/07 H Enacted - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 240) -HJ 905
  • 12/03/07 H Motion to reconsider prevailed
  • 12/03/07 H Recommitted to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading
  • 12/03/07 H Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
  • 12/03/07 H Again enacted -HJ 929
  • 12/03/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1017
  • 12/10/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 209 of the Acts of 2007
  • 02/27/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading

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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.