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Bill An Act validating the actions taken at a certain town meeting in the town of Berlin By Mr. Naughton of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3961) of Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (by vote of the town) relative to validating the actions taken at a certain town meeting in the town of Berlin. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 190th H 3961 Massachusetts H 3961 (190th)
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Massachusetts H 3961 (190th) — An Act validating the actions taken at a certain town meeting in the town of Berlin

By Mr. Naughton of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3961) of Harold P. Naughton, Jr. (by vote of the town) relative to validating the actions taken at a certain town meeting in the town of Berlin. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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

Sponsors

  • Harold P. Naughton, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-10-17 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
  • 2017-10-19 Senate concurred
  • 2017-10-24 Hearing scheduled for 10/31/2017 from 11:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
  • 2017-10-31 Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2017-11-02 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2017-11-02 Rules suspended
  • 2017-11-02 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2017-11-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2017-11-22 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2017-12-14 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2017-12-14 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2017-12-18 Enacted passage
  • 2017-12-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2017-12-21 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 158 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b66f5667-11fb-43f4-9002-9ed0f6759735. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).