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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill An Act relative to statewide grand juries An Act relative to statewide grand juries us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 191st H 4603 Massachusetts H 4603 (191st)
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1 15 0 2020-02-06 2020-08-06 openstates ocd-bill/94c5ac0f-be10-4828-8812-22bdf7d76c11 https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4603 4bccfc44f01b5c6d453466ae7d93175005e3980a6ace545298bb3cd5f2022c3a 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Massachusetts H 4603 (191st) — An Act relative to statewide grand juries

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • Joint Committee on the Judiciary — primary (person)
  • Paul F. Tucker — cosponsor (person)
  • Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)
  • William N. Brownsberger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-02-06 Reported from the committee on The Judiciary
  • 2020-02-06 New draft of S855 and H1572
  • 2020-02-06 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2020-02-13 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2020-02-13 Rules suspended
  • 2020-02-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2020-07-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2020-07-23 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
  • 2020-07-31 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2020-07-31 Rules suspended
  • 2020-07-31 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2020-07-31 Rules suspended
  • 2020-07-31 Enacted passage
  • 2020-07-31 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2020-08-06 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 146 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94c5ac0f-be10-4828-8812-22bdf7d76c11. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).