republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/191st/s-2308.md

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Bill	An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization	SENATE, July 31, 2019 - The committee on Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill further regulating thoroughbred breeding (Senate, No. 2238),-- reports (in part) a Bill extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization (Senate, No. 2308).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	191st	S 2308	Massachusetts S 2308 (191st)	bill		enacted	Senate Committee on Ways and Means	1	19	0	2019-07-31	2020-01-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f43c6efb-8d15-43e7-b704-678a9e5e7bef	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2308	69acdf676c5e3c406283f0b3ffac7d63f5cc40df4fe5879c8448615450b0c747	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2308 (191st) — An Act extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization

SENATE, July 31, 2019 - The committee on Ways and Means to whom was referred the Senate Bill further regulating thoroughbred breeding (Senate, No. 2238),-- reports (in part) a Bill extending simulcasting and horse racing authorization (Senate, No. 2308).

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-07-31 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2019-07-31 Reported on a part of S2238
• 2019-07-31 Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-01 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H4287) pending
• 2020-01-09 Rules suspended
• 2020-01-09 Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H4287) and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-01-09 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-01-13 Rules suspended
• 2020-01-13 Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment
• 2020-01-13 House concurred in the Senate further amendment with a still further amendment
• 2020-01-13 Rules suspended
• 2020-01-13 Senate concurred in the House still further amendment
• 2020-01-13 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-01-13 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2020-01-13 Enacted passage
• 2020-01-13 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-01-14 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 1 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f43c6efb-8d15-43e7-b704-678a9e5e7bef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).