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Senate 16 - Petition of Stanley C. Rosenberg and Ellen Story (by vote of the town) for legislation to release certain land in the town of Amherst from the operation of an agricultural preservation restriction.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 03/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 21 of the Acts of 2007

Sponsor:

  • Stanley C. Rosenberg

All Bill Actions

  • 02/12/07 S Referred to the committee on Senate Ethics and Rules -SJ 49
  • 02/14/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass
  • 02/14/07 S Rules suspended
  • 02/14/07 S Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed -SJ 52
  • 02/14/07 H Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
  • 02/14/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 02/14/07 H Rules suspended
  • 02/14/07 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 96
  • 02/15/07 H Rules suspended
  • 02/15/07 H Read third and passed to be engrossed
  • 02/15/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 02/15/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 57
  • 02/15/07 H Enacted - 144 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 22) -HJs 102-103
  • 02/28/07 S Enacted - 36 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 5)
  • 02/28/07 S Laid before the Governor -SJ 72
  • 03/07/07 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 21 of the Acts of 2007

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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.