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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act validating the actions taken at the 2020 Biennial State Election held in the city known as the town of Randolph"
description: "By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 493) of Walter F. Timilty, Bruce J. Ayers, Mark J. Cusack and William J. Driscoll, Jr. (by vote of the town) for legislation to validate the actions taken at the 2020 Biennial State Election held in the city known as the town of Randolph. Election Laws. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 493"
citation: "Massachusetts S 493 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ab73fc9-017a-4c30-bf16-4ee308b75b0f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S493"
source_hash: "d3af2e93b6b3f5eba472bc317e3c2f35dd7ba75ae18ef2e8bd8b5c0242a2dfc4"
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 S 493 (192nd) — An Act validating the actions taken at the 2020 Biennial State Election held in the city known as the town of Randolph
By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 493) of Walter F. Timilty, Bruce J. Ayers, Mark J. Cusack and William J. Driscoll, Jr. (by vote of the town) for legislation to validate the actions taken at the 2020 Biennial State Election held in the city known as the town of Randolph. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S493.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
- Bruce J. Ayers — cosponsor (person)
- Mark J. Cusack — cosponsor (person)
- William J. Driscoll, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** House concurred
- **2021-05-06** Bill reported favorably by committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-10** Taken out of the Notice Section
- **2021-06-10** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-06-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-14** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-26** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-29** Rules suspended
- **2021-07-29** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2021-08-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-08-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-08-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 37 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ab73fc9-017a-4c30-bf16-4ee308b75b0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).