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House 2020 - Petition of F. Jay Barrows that the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance be authorized to convey certain land in the town of Foxborough.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 03/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2007

Sponsor:

  • F. Jay Barrows

All Bill Actions

  • 01/11/07 H Referred to the committee on House Rules
  • 02/12/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
  • 02/12/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 02/12/07 H Rules suspended
  • 02/12/07 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 93
  • 02/22/07 H Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -HJ 110
  • 02/26/07 S Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 68
  • 02/27/07 H Emergency preamble adopted -HJs 115-116
  • 02/28/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 73
  • 03/01/07 H Enacted -HJ 121
  • 03/01/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 78
  • 03/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 22 of the Acts of 2007

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