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Senate 2452 - Petition of Robert A. O'Leary and Sarah K. Peake (by vote of the town) for legislation authorizing the town of Orleans to operate a sewer system.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 10/30/08 H Rules suspended

    10/30/08 H House concurred -HJ 2080

Sponsor:

  • Robert A. O'Leary

All Bill Actions

  • 12/20/07 S Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government -SJ 1035
  • 12/26/07 H House concurred -HJ 959
  • Public Hearing date Jan 22 am at 11:00 in Room B-1
  • 01/31/08 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 1189
  • 02/12/08 S Read second and ordered to a third reading -SJ 1214
  • 02/25/08 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 02/25/08 S Read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 1248
  • 02/26/08 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 1085
  • 04/01/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading -HJ 1204
  • 04/02/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 1212
  • 05/28/08 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 1529
  • 05/29/08 H Enacted -HJ 1533
  • 05/29/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1851
  • 06/06/08 G Governor returned to the Senate with an amendment
  • 06/09/08 S For message, see S2737
  • 06/09/08 S Referred to the committee on Senate Bills in the Third Reading. -SJ 1878
  • 06/24/08 S Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
  • 06/24/08 S Rules suspended
  • 06/24/08 S Governor's amendment adopted -SJs 1934-1935
  • 10/30/08 H Rules suspended
  • 10/30/08 H House concurred -HJ 2080

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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.