---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act regarding the recall of elected officers of the town of Sharon"
description: "By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 862) of Edward R. Philips (by vote of the town) relative to the recall of elected officers in the town of Sharon. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 862"
citation: "Massachusetts H 862 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward R. Philips"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2026-02-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b03f6e2-d899-4120-888e-7d744a603cf3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H862"
source_hash: "014789e2622ee4c309699680a8d1f34023b10b59d03ee31767632c378c131a33"
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 862 (194th) — An Act regarding the recall of elected officers of the town of Sharon

By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 862) of Edward R. Philips (by vote of the town) relative to the recall of elected officers in the town of Sharon. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/H862.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward R. Philips — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Senate concurred
- **2025-04-28** Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
- **2025-07-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-04** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-12-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-11** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-02-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-02-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-02-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 23 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/4b03f6e2-d899-4120-888e-7d744a603cf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).