republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/s-2631.md

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Bill	An Act to promote and enhance civic engagement	Report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches, with reference to the House amendments to the Senate Bill to promote and enhance civic engagement (Senate, No. 2375) (amended by the House by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4545, amended),-- reports, in part, a “Bill to promote and enhance civic engagement” (Senate, No. 2631).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2631	Massachusetts S 2631 (190th)	bill		enacted	Promote Civic Engagement	1	24	0	2018-07-24	2018-11-08	openstates	ocd-bill/52acfa9d-7f09-471e-b8fe-fb71752df107	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2631	bcea1f21c15156b8f4d9d315020ad080f87899ea1e54980038a9267622fe33e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2631 (190th) — An Act to promote and enhance civic engagement

Report of the committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two branches, with reference to the House amendments to the Senate Bill to promote and enhance civic engagement (Senate, No. 2375) (amended by the House by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of House document numbered 4545, amended),-- reports, in part, a “Bill to promote and enhance civic engagement” (Senate, No. 2631).

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Promote Civic Engagement — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-07-24 Reported from the committee of conference
• 2018-07-25 Reported on a part of S2375
• 2018-07-25 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-25 Committee of conference report accepted -see Roll Call #462 (Yeas 37 to Nays 0)
• 2018-07-25 Reported from the committee of conference
• 2018-07-25 Reported on S2375
• 2018-07-25 Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2018-07-25 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting, the question being on acceptance
• 2018-07-25 Rules suspended
• 2018-07-25 Committee of conference report accepted, in concurrence - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 415)
• 2018-07-25 Enacted passage
• 2018-07-25 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-08-06 Governor returned to Senate with amendment, see S2650
• 2018-08-06 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2018-10-25 Reported from the committee on Senate Bills in the Third Reading
• 2018-10-25 Rules suspended
• 2018-10-25 Amendment (Chandler) pending
• 2018-10-25 Postponed to the next session
• 2018-10-29 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2018-10-29 Amendment #1 (Chandler) adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-10-29 Governor's amendment adopted, as amended amendment-passage
• 2018-10-29 Re-enacted
• 2018-10-29 Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor
• 2018-11-08 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 296 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52acfa9d-7f09-471e-b8fe-fb71752df107. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).