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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville"
description: "By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4125) of Norman J. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) relative to establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4125"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4125 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-10-12"
last_action: "2024-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8ad71d0-dc14-4b21-98b9-6346502ea4d2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4125"
source_hash: "00dbd85be78adc35b3ced5c6e8f29026607938ce17cd24086e02702d25fe695f"
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 4125 (193rd) — An Act establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville
By Representative Orrall of Lakeville and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4125) of Norman J. Orrall and Michael J. Rodrigues (by vote of the town) relative to establishing recall methods for elected officials in the town of Lakeville. 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/193/H4125.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-10-12** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
- **2023-10-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-11-29** Hearing scheduled for 12/05/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2024-02-12** Reporting date extended to Tuesday March 19, 2024, pending concurrence
- **2024-02-29** Senate concurred
- **2024-03-21** Reporting date extended to Tuesday May 28, 2024, pending concurrence
- **2024-04-11** Senate concurred
- **2024-05-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-06-27** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-12** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-08-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-08-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 190 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8ad71d0-dc14-4b21-98b9-6346502ea4d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).