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House 3967 - Petition of Byron Rushing and others for legislation to establish the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination within the office of Administration and Finance.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 05/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2007

Sponsor:

  • Byron Rushing

All Bill Actions

  • 03/29/07 H Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight -HJ 165
  • 03/29/07 S Senate concurred -SJ 137
  • 04/04/07 H Accompanied by S1846
  • 04/04/07 H Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
  • 04/04/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 04/04/07 H Rules suspended
  • 04/04/07 H Read second and ordered to a third reading
  • 04/04/07 H Rules suspended
  • 04/04/07 H Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -HJs 173-174
  • 04/05/07 S Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 150
  • 04/05/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 04/05/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 155
  • 04/05/07 H Enacted -HJs 179-180
  • 04/05/07 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 156
  • 04/13/07 G Governor returned to the House with an amendment
  • 04/17/07 H For message, see H3979
  • 04/17/07 H Referred to the committee on House Bills in the Third Reading -HJ 200
  • 04/25/07 H Bills in the Third Reading special report accepted
  • 04/25/07 H Governor's amendment rejected
  • 04/25/07 H Amendment adopted -HJ 270
  • 04/26/07 S Motion to lay on the table pending and postponed to the next session -SJ 185
  • 05/01/07 S Motion to lay on the table withdrawn
  • 05/01/07 S Governor's amendment rejected
  • 05/01/07 S House amendment adopted - 35 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 14) -SJs 196-197
  • 05/03/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 05/03/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 202
  • 05/03/07 H Re-enacted -HJs 369-370
  • 05/03/07 S Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor -SJ 202
  • 05/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2007

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