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Bill An Act establishing the first week in August as ice bucket challenge week By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1697) of Jerald A. Parisella, Joan B. Lovely and others for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart first week in August as ice bucket challenge week. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 190th H 1697 Massachusetts H 1697 (190th)
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Massachusetts H 1697 (190th) — An Act establishing the first week in August as ice bucket challenge week

By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1697) of Jerald A. Parisella, Joan B. Lovely and others for the annual issuance by the Governor of a proclamation setting apart first week in August as ice bucket challenge week. 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

Sponsors

  • Alan Silvia — cosponsor (person)
  • Bradford R. Hill — cosponsor (person)
  • Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
  • Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
  • Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
  • Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
  • Carolyn C. Dykema — cosponsor (person)
  • Colleen M. Garry — cosponsor (person)
  • Daniel Cullinane — cosponsor (person)
  • Daniel J. Ryan — cosponsor (person)
  • Danielle W. Gregoire — cosponsor (person)
  • David M. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
  • Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)
  • Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
  • James Arciero — cosponsor (person)
  • James M. Cantwell — cosponsor (person)
  • James M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
  • Jeffrey N. Roy — cosponsor (person)
  • Jerald A. Parisella — cosponsor (person)
  • Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
  • John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
  • Joseph D. McKenna — cosponsor (person)
  • Josh S. Cutler — cosponsor (person)
  • Kevin G. Honan — cosponsor (person)
  • Louis L. Kafka — cosponsor (person)
  • Mathew Muratore — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
  • Patrick M. O'Connor — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul Tucker — cosponsor (person)
  • Shaunna L. O'Connell — cosponsor (person)
  • Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)
  • Steven Ultrino — cosponsor (person)
  • Thomas P. Walsh — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-23 Referred to the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight referral-committee
  • 2017-01-23 Senate concurred
  • 2017-06-07 Hearing scheduled for 06/12/2017 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
  • 2017-06-14 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-06-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2017-06-14 Rules suspended
  • 2017-06-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2017-07-03 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2017-07-05 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
  • 2017-07-24 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
  • 2017-07-24 Rules suspended
  • 2017-07-24 Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2017-07-24 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
  • 2017-07-24 House concurred in the Senate amendment
  • 2017-07-24 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2017-07-24 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2017-07-24 Enacted passage
  • 2017-07-27 Enacted -see Roll Call #76 [YEAS 38 to NAYS 0] passage
  • 2017-07-27 Laid before the Governor
  • 2017-08-01 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4fadbfbf-0b00-47f5-be95-352d0e9a3331. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).