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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Lancaster"
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description: "By Representative Kilcoyne of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3578) of Meghan Kilcoyne and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) relative to validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Lancaster. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "193rd"
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identifier: "H 3578"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 3578 (193rd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Meghan K. Kilcoyne"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2023-03-30"
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last_action: "2024-02-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14759d87-a154-4356-977e-263eb3927f60"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3578"
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source_hash: "732cf13418820f30bb2caec4ad06230e125b6f5ddd82c57c9332de25334e7777"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 3578 (193rd) — An Act validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Lancaster
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By Representative Kilcoyne of Clinton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3578) of Meghan Kilcoyne and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) relative to validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Lancaster. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3578.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Meghan K. Kilcoyne — primary (person)
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- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-03-30** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-30** Senate concurred
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- **2023-05-11** Hearing scheduled for 05/17/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
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- **2023-06-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-07-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2023-07-26** Rules suspended
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- **2023-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2023-08-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2023-08-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
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- **2023-10-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2024-01-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2024-01-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-02-01** Enacted `passage`
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- **2024-02-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2024-02-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 24 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14759d87-a154-4356-977e-263eb3927f60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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