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Bill An Act relative to the town of Cheshire's special election By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 801) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) for legislation to validate the results of the special election held in the town of Cheshire on August 12, 2024. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 194th H 801 Massachusetts H 801 (194th)
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Massachusetts H 801 (194th) — An Act relative to the town of Cheshire's special election

By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 801) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) for legislation to validate the results of the special election held in the town of Cheshire on August 12, 2024. 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

Sponsors

  • John Barrett, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-02-27 Referred to the committee on Election Laws referral-committee
  • 2025-02-27 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
  • 2025-07-21 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2025-07-21 Rules suspended
  • 2025-07-21 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2025-07-24 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2025-07-28 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2025-08-11 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2025-08-11 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
  • 2025-08-14 Enacted passage
  • 2025-08-14 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2025-08-20 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 20 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/216b52b4-281b-448b-9b28-0ca2841b467f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).