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Senate 2290 - Petition of Scott P. Brown and Richard J. Ross (by vote of the town) for legislation to provide for recall elections in the town of Wrentham.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 04/10/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • Scott P. Brown

All Bill Actions

  • 07/12/07 S Referred to the committee on Election Laws -SJ 570
  • 07/16/07 H House concurred -HJ 540
  • 01/09/08 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 1070
  • 01/22/08 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 01/22/08 S Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 1162
  • 01/23/08 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 1012
  • 01/31/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 01/31/08 H Rules suspended
  • 01/31/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJs 1031-1032
  • 03/04/08 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 1119
  • 03/06/08 H Enacted -HJ 1129
  • 03/06/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1301
  • 03/14/08 G Governor returned to the Senate with amendment
  • 03/18/08 S For message, see S2553
  • 03/18/08 S Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Bills in the Third Reading. -SJ 1322
  • 03/27/08 S Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
  • 03/27/08 S Governor's amendment rejected
  • 03/27/08 S Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2586 -SJ 1401
  • 04/02/08 H Rules suspended
  • 04/02/08 H House concurred in the Senate amendment -HJ 1209
  • 04/03/08 H Re-enacted -HJ 1221
  • 04/03/08 S Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor -SJ 1426
  • 04/10/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 74 of the Acts of 2008

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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.