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Bill An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025 Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025. us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 194th H 4763 Massachusetts H 4763 (194th)
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Massachusetts H 4763 (194th) — An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025

Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 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.

  • 2025-11-18 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
  • 2025-11-19 Senate concurred
  • 2025-12-03 Hearing scheduled for 12/12/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
  • 2025-12-10 Hearing rescheduled to 12/15/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only Hearing date changed
  • 2026-02-09 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2026-02-12 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2026-02-12 Rules suspended
  • 2026-02-12 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2026-03-02 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2026-03-05 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
  • 2026-03-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2026-03-12 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2026-03-16 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2026-03-16 Emergency preamble adopted
  • 2026-03-16 Enacted passage
  • 2026-03-16 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2026-03-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2286f768-db15-431b-ad1f-a80692ff7f89. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).