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Bill	An Act authorizing the Cotuit Fire District to raise and appropriate money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit	By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2259) of Kip A. Diggs relative to authorizing the Cotuit Fire District to raise and appropriate money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit. Municipalities and Regional Government.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 2259	Massachusetts H 2259 (194th)	bill		enacted	Kip A. Diggs	1	15	0	2025-02-27	2026-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/35726a5d-075e-4332-ba7f-ebf3ac11bb7e	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2259	3e84ef243f664a6d19019510385545de39156ed31f30ae8d69474822091ec3d9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 2259 (194th) — An Act authorizing the Cotuit Fire District to raise and appropriate money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit

By Representative Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2259) of Kip A. Diggs relative to authorizing the Cotuit Fire District to raise and appropriate money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit. Municipalities and Regional Government.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Kip A. Diggs — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Senate concurred
• 2025-05-05 Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2025-07-10 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-23 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-07-23 Rules suspended
• 2025-07-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2026-03-12 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2026-03-12 Rules suspended
• 2026-03-12 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2026-03-16 Enacted passage
• 2026-03-16 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-03-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/35726a5d-075e-4332-ba7f-ebf3ac11bb7e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).