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House 26 - Petition of David L. Flynn and Mark R. Pacheco for legislation to remove an agricultural preservation restriction from land known as Borden Colony in the town of Raynham.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 01/17/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • David L. Flynn

All Bill Actions

  • 01/11/07 H Referred to the committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets
  • 01/11/07 S Senate concurred
  • 03/01/07 H Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means -HJ 120
  • 07/30/07 H Committee recommended ought to pass with certain amendments and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendments pending -HJs 579-580
  • 09/17/07 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendments pending -HJ 649
  • 09/18/07 H Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means) and ordered to a third reading -HJ 656
  • 10/17/07 H Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -HJ 748
  • 10/18/07 S Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means -SJ 866
  • 11/20/07 S Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment
  • 11/20/07 S Rules suspended
  • 11/20/07 S Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -SJ 977
  • 11/20/07 H Rules suspended
  • 11/20/07 H House concurred in the Senate amendment -HJs 887-888
  • 11/20/07 H Emergency preamble adopted
  • 11/20/07 S Emergency preamble adopted -SJ 996
  • 11/20/07 H Enacted - 151 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See Yea and Nay in Supplement, No. 241) -HJ 905
  • 01/09/08 S Enacted - 37 YEAS to 0 NAYS (see Senate Roll Call, No. 159)
  • 01/09/08 S Laid before the Governor -SJs 1072-1073
  • 01/17/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 5 of the Acts of 2008

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