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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the order of candidates' names on the town of Marblehead town election ballots"
description: "By Mr. Crighton, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 411) of Brendan P. Crighton and Jennifer Balinsky Armini (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the order of candidates' names on the town of Marblehead town election ballots. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 411"
citation: "Massachusetts S 411 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brendan P. Crighton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b4e7ba6-6ba3-42bc-a857-fa1f2108a8a4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S411"
source_hash: "832184ca326109a8e7d0a81edb36e18e957894cd7f92448ca03e08adae17cc5f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts S 411 (193rd) — An Act relative to the order of candidates' names on the town of Marblehead town election ballots
By Mr. Crighton, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 411) of Brendan P. Crighton and Jennifer Balinsky Armini (by vote of the town) for legislation relative to the order of candidates' names on the town of Marblehead town election ballots. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S411.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Brendan P. Crighton — primary (person)
- Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** House concurred
- **2023-03-30** Hearing scheduled for 04/06/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2023-04-20** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Rules suspended
- **2023-04-20** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-04-24** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-04-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-04-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-05-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 10 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b4e7ba6-6ba3-42bc-a857-fa1f2108a8a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).