---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025"
description: "Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4763"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4763 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-11-18"
last_action: "2026-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2286f768-db15-431b-ad1f-a80692ff7f89"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4763"
source_hash: "85bf565d062133f18f31c7f5d54152ee4592f7b701a7f38db1a1fea5e0b1d7ce"
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 H 4763 (194th) — An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025

Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025.

## 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/194/H4763.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-18** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-19** Senate concurred
- **2025-12-03** Hearing scheduled for 12/12/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2025-12-10** Hearing rescheduled to 12/15/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only Hearing date changed
- **2026-02-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-05** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-03-16** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2026-03-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2286f768-db15-431b-ad1f-a80692ff7f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).