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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the annual town election in the town of Rockport"
description: "Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to relative to the 2017 annual town election in the town of rockport."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3656"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3656 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-04-25"
last_action: "2017-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4802b58d-31d8-42ff-b015-f3fcc1710763"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3656"
source_hash: "60f553177dff17a16acbd9ffb896b79ad014359ec284530ded2fe973a96cf1e8"
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 3656 (190th) — An Act relative to the annual town election in the town of Rockport
Message from His Excellency the Governor recommending legislation relative to relative to the 2017 annual town election in the town of rockport.
## 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/190/H3656.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-04-25** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** Senate concurred
- **2017-05-05** Hearing scheduled for 05/11/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in A-2
- **2017-06-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-12** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-26** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-07-27** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-08-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-28** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-08-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-08-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-08-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 75 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4802b58d-31d8-42ff-b015-f3fcc1710763`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).