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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 Bourne on May 20, 2025"
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description: "Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "194th"
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identifier: "H 4763"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4763 (194th)"
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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: 17
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2025-11-18"
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last_action: "2026-03-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2286f768-db15-431b-ad1f-a80692ff7f89"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4763"
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source_hash: "85bf565d062133f18f31c7f5d54152ee4592f7b701a7f38db1a1fea5e0b1d7ce"
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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 4763 (194th) — An Act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025
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Message from Her Excellency the Governor (under the provisions of Section 8 of Article LXXXIX of the Amendments to the Constitution) recommending legislation relative to validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Bourne on May 20, 2025.
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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/194/H4763.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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- **2025-11-18** Referred to the committee on Election Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2025-11-19** Senate concurred
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- **2025-12-03** Hearing scheduled for 12/12/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
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- **2025-12-10** Hearing rescheduled to 12/15/2025 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only Hearing date changed
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- **2026-02-09** 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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- **2026-02-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2026-02-12** Rules suspended
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- **2026-02-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-03-05** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2026-03-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2026-03-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-03-16** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2026-03-16** Emergency preamble adopted
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- **2026-03-16** Enacted `passage`
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- **2026-03-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2026-03-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 44 of the Acts of 2026 `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/2286f768-db15-431b-ad1f-a80692ff7f89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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