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House 4637 - Bill financing improvements to the Commonwealth's transportation system.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 04/17/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2008

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All Bill Actions

  • 04/01/08 H Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
  • 04/01/08 H Read
  • 04/01/08 H Substituted (in part) for H4609
  • 04/01/08 H Rules suspended
  • 04/01/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJs 1202-1203
  • 04/02/08 H Read third
  • 04/02/08 H Passed to be engrossed - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 292) -HJ 1215
  • 04/03/08 S Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means -SJ 1417
  • 04/03/08 S Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, see S2613
  • 04/03/08 S Rules suspended
  • 04/03/08 S Read second
  • 04/03/08 S Amendment adopted
  • 04/03/08 S For text of Senate amendment, see S2613
  • 04/03/08 S Ordered to a third reading
  • 04/03/08 S Read third
  • 04/03/08 S Passed to be engrossed - 39 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 198) -SJ 1423
  • 04/07/08 S Motion to reconsider prevailed
  • 04/07/08 S Amendment (Baddour) adopted
  • 04/07/08 S Again passed to be engrossed -SJ 1435
  • 04/08/08 H Rules suspended
  • 04/08/08 H House concurred in the Senate amendment - 115 YEAS to 41 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 294) -HJ 1233
  • 04/10/08 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 04/10/08 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 1441
  • 04/10/08 H Enacted - 158 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 295) -HJ 1242
  • 04/10/08 S Enacted - 38 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 201)
  • 04/10/08 S Laid before the Governor -SJs 1445-1446
  • 04/17/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2008

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