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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Whitman on May 20, 2023"
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description: "Senate, March 11, 2024 -- Message from Her Excellency the Governor (pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 8, Paragraph 1, Clause (2) of the Amendments to the Constitution, as appearing in Article LXXXIX of said Amendments) recommending legislation to validate the results of the annual election held in the town of Whitman on May 20, 2023"
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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: "S 2698"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 2698 (193rd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 12
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2024-03-11"
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last_action: "2024-04-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a6f0175-1646-4736-9815-5f730e7672a7"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2698"
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source_hash: "6b485f8da5ca14743b85e1b8b56e3874d49633a5d95a18ded02791d91756e871"
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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 S 2698 (193rd) — An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Whitman on May 20, 2023
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Senate, March 11, 2024 -- Message from Her Excellency the Governor (pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 8, Paragraph 1, Clause (2) of the Amendments to the Constitution, as appearing in Article LXXXIX of said Amendments) recommending legislation to validate the results of the annual election held in the town of Whitman on May 20, 2023
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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/S2698.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Maura T. Healey — primary (organization)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-03-11** Read and referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2024-03-11** House concurred
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- **2024-03-11** Hearing scheduled for 03/11/2024 from 04:00 PM-04:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
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- **2024-03-28** 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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- **2024-04-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2024-04-01** Rules suspended
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- **2024-04-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2024-04-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-04-11** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
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- **2024-04-16** Enacted `passage`
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- **2024-04-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2024-04-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 82 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/3a6f0175-1646-4736-9815-5f730e7672a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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