---
type: "Bill"
title: "Resolve providing for the erection in the house chamber of a memorial containing the text of the address which Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to a joint convention of the 2 branches of the General Court on April 22, 1965"
description: "By Mr. Williams of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No. 2799) of Bud L. Williams and others providing that the superintendent of the Bureau of State Office Buildings be authorized to erect a plaque, in the House Chamber, commemorating a portion of the address Martin Luther King, Jr., gave to a joint convention of the General Court on April 22, 1965. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 2799"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2799 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bud L. Williams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2020-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66fa810f-e3ed-4339-98a8-25f88ca7d6f9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2799"
source_hash: "edf067d590e92030e7ee07bd09919eda5919b5201e62ef42ccff303ddb6a2164"
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 2799 (191st) — Resolve providing for the erection in the house chamber of a memorial containing the text of the address which Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to a joint convention of the 2 branches of the General Court on April 22, 1965

By Mr. Williams of Springfield, a petition (accompanied by resolve, House, No. 2799) of Bud L. Williams and others providing that the superintendent of the Bureau of State Office Buildings be authorized to erect a plaque, in the House Chamber, commemorating a portion of the address Martin Luther King, Jr., gave to a joint convention of the General Court on April 22, 1965. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

## 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/H2799.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bud L. Williams — primary (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Carlos González — cosponsor (person)
- Chynah Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf — cosponsor (person)
- José F. Tosado — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Senate concurred
- **2019-04-30** Hearing scheduled for 05/07/2019 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in 437
- **2019-10-28** Resolve reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-12-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-12-19** Rules suspended
- **2019-12-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-12-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-26** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-07-23** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-23** Read third `reading-3`
- **2020-07-23** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #244 (Yeas 40 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-27** Enacted - 159 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 228) `passage`
- **2020-07-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 1 of the Resolves of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66fa810f-e3ed-4339-98a8-25f88ca7d6f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).