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Bill An Act relative to the retirement benefits of the surviving beneficiary of Robert Lawler By Representative Roy of Franklin, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2649) of Jeffrey N. Roy (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the retirement board of the city of Boston provide certain retirement benefits to Donna Lawler the surviving beneficiary of Robert Lawler. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 2649 Massachusetts H 2649 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 2649 (193rd) — An Act relative to the retirement benefits of the surviving beneficiary of Robert Lawler

By Representative Roy of Franklin, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2649) of Jeffrey N. Roy (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the retirement board of the city of Boston provide certain retirement benefits to Donna Lawler the surviving beneficiary of Robert Lawler. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • Jeffrey N. Roy — primary (person)
  • Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-02-16 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
  • 2023-02-16 Senate concurred
  • 2023-03-29 Hearing scheduled for 04/04/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
  • 2023-05-22 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2023-06-20 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2023-06-20 Rules suspended
  • 2023-06-20 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2023-07-26 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2023-07-27 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2023-08-21 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2023-08-21 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
  • 2023-08-24 Enacted passage
  • 2023-08-24 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2023-08-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/368238b8-2e4d-4bb3-9a1f-a52d9f087228. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).