---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Hubbardston"
description: "Senate, March 1, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Hubbardston."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 24"
citation: "Massachusetts S 24 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd9edc18-e6b9-4419-bf1f-49f505e2d45c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S24"
source_hash: "1e81e514796ed436dcc44cdeddc71d3f2db536a60bef21fe6793d582a439bb6b"
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 24 (192nd) — An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Hubbardston

Senate, March 1, 2021 -- Message from His Excellency the Governor (pursuant to Article II, Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Hubbardston.

## 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/192/S24.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** House concurred
- **2021-03-25** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Rules suspended
- **2021-03-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-04-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-04-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Rules suspended
- **2021-04-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-04-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-04-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 12 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd9edc18-e6b9-4419-bf1f-49f505e2d45c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).