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Bill An Act validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025 Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025. us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 194th H 4004 Massachusetts H 4004 (194th)
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Massachusetts H 4004 (194th) — An Act validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025

Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the special election held in the town of Hardwick on January 18, 2025.

Version chain

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

  1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-04-03 Read; and referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
  • 2025-04-07 Senate concurred
  • 2025-04-28 Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 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
  • 2025-07-14 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2025-07-14 Rules suspended
  • 2025-07-14 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2025-07-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2025-07-24 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
  • 2025-08-14 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2025-08-14 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2025-08-18 Enacted passage
  • 2025-08-20 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5854cde8-f188-4872-9fbf-04c344f30fca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).