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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Stow"
description: "An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Stow"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5129"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5129 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-02-17"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37e7be69-5e23-457a-9eef-2510c690ec23"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5129"
source_hash: "02083114af3fdd18443ea0b6c2ae212297a9b50388f6784417068c99b56b1b40"
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 H 5129 (194th) — An Act validating certain proceedings of the town of Stow
## 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/194/H5129.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-17** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Senate concurred
- **2026-03-12** Hearing scheduled for 03/24/2026 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2026-04-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-04-09** Rules suspended
- **2026-04-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-07** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2026-06-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-06-11** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 108 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37e7be69-5e23-457a-9eef-2510c690ec23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).