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Bill	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.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	H 2799	Massachusetts H 2799 (191st)	bill		enacted	Bud L. Williams	1	17	0	2019-01-22	2020-08-04	openstates	ocd-bill/66fa810f-e3ed-4339-98a8-25f88ca7d6f9	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H2799	edf067d590e92030e7ee07bd09919eda5919b5201e62ef42ccff303ddb6a2164	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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

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; origin ocd-bill/66fa810f-e3ed-4339-98a8-25f88ca7d6f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).