---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Heath on May 10, 2019"
description: "Senate, May 30, 2019 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to validate the results of the annual town election held in the town of Heath on May 10, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2234"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2234 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-30"
last_action: "2019-11-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/945aa78a-ae4b-4236-9504-b7db14e4bf62"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2234"
source_hash: "c125092f16329d42a3d29a3edc7bcd940d704978cb4e2950f5ce3e9993d320e7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts S 2234 (191st) — An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Heath on May 10, 2019

Senate, May 30, 2019 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation to validate the results of the annual town election held in the town of Heath on May 10, 2019.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2234.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-30** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-03** House concurred
- **2019-08-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-07** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-07** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-10-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-10-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-11-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/945aa78a-ae4b-4236-9504-b7db14e4bf62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).