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Senate 2400 - Petition of Stanley C. Rosenberg and Peter V. Kocot (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation relative to the investment of trust funds for the city of Northampton.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 02/21/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • Stanley C. Rosenberg

All Bill Actions

  • 11/08/07 S Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government -SJ 923
  • 11/14/07 H House concurred -HJ 830
  • Public Hearing date Dec 5 am at 10:00 in Room A-1
  • 12/21/07 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 1041
  • 01/07/08 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 01/07/08 S Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -SJ 1068
  • 01/10/08 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 985
  • 01/15/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading -HJ 991
  • 01/16/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 997
  • 02/13/08 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 1060
  • 02/14/08 H Enacted -HJ 1069
  • 02/14/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1234
  • 02/21/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 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.