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Bill	An Act establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville	By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4125) of Norman J. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) relative to establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4125	Massachusetts H 4125 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	18	0	2023-10-12	2024-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/d8ad71d0-dc14-4b21-98b9-6346502ea4d2	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4125	00dbd85be78adc35b3ced5c6e8f29026607938ce17cd24086e02702d25fe695f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4125 (193rd) — An Act establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville

By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4125) of Norman J. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) relative to establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville. Election Laws. [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

• Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
• Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-10-12 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
• 2023-10-16 Senate concurred
• 2023-11-29 Hearing scheduled for 12/05/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
• 2024-02-12 Reporting date extended to Tuesday March 19, 2024, pending concurrence
• 2024-02-29 Senate concurred
• 2024-03-21 Reporting date extended to Tuesday May 28, 2024, pending concurrence
• 2024-04-11 Senate concurred
• 2024-05-30 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-06-27 Rules suspended
• 2024-06-27 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-08 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-12 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-08-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Enacted passage
• 2024-08-22 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-08-27 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 190 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d8ad71d0-dc14-4b21-98b9-6346502ea4d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).