---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Sharon"
description: "A message from His Excellency the Governor (under Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating certain proceedings of the town of Sharon (House, No. 3826). May 30, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3826"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3826 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-30"
last_action: "2019-12-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/049de3ca-1d5b-4397-8ac7-b44522db8587"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3826"
source_hash: "0e745d1b789e493fdcb7083592ffe9873ce8c8b77ab5d2d41844a96fd280ab65"
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 3826 (191st) — An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Sharon

A message from His Excellency the Governor (under Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating certain proceedings of the town of Sharon (House, No. 3826). May 30, 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/H3826.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** Senate concurred
- **2019-09-26** Hearing scheduled for 10/02/2019 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2019-10-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-21** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-28** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-11-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-11-21** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-21** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-11-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-12-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 134 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/049de3ca-1d5b-4397-8ac7-b44522db8587`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).