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Bill	An Act designating the month of March as Massachusetts Maple Month	Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a Bill providing for the annual observance of the month of March as Massachusetts maple month and designating pure Massachusetts maple syrup as the official sweetener of the Commonwealth (House, No. 3735). February 20, 2018.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	H 4246	Massachusetts H 4246 (190th)	bill		enacted	Theodore C. Speliotis	1	11	0	2018-02-20	2018-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/81520668-4746-435b-be38-2cc7c5a6ab61	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4246	7e30899a925e9b09f82b05e4b4e51949a4303d7239cb42d7d42fbd9ada38944e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4246 (190th) — An Act designating the month of March as Massachusetts Maple Month

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a Bill providing for the annual observance of the month of March as Massachusetts maple month and designating pure Massachusetts maple syrup as the official sweetener of the Commonwealth (House, No. 3735). February 20, 2018.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-20 Substituted for H3735
• 2018-02-20 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2018-02-22 Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2018-03-01 Rules suspended
• 2018-03-01 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2018-03-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-03-05 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2018-03-05 Enacted passage
• 2018-03-05 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-03-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 40 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81520668-4746-435b-be38-2cc7c5a6ab61. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).