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Senate 2344 - Petition of Richard T. Moore and Paul Kujawski (by vote of the town) for legislation to establish the Whitin Reservoir Watershed District in the town of Douglas.

Bill Status

  • Session: 185th General Court
  • Bill Status: 05/13/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 103 of the Acts of 2008

Sponsor:

  • Richard T. Moore

All Bill Actions

  • 09/13/07 S Referred to the committee on Joint Rules -SJ 716
  • 09/26/07 S Rules suspended
  • 09/26/07 S Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government -SJ 812
  • 01/22/08 H House concurred -HJ 1008
  • 01/31/08 S Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session -SJ 1188
  • 02/12/08 S Read second and ordered to a third reading -SJ 1214
  • 03/06/08 S Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 03/06/08 S Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed -SJ 1300
  • 03/10/08 H Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling -HJ 1131
  • 03/12/08 H Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading -HJ 1146
  • 03/13/08 H Read second and ordered to a third reading -HJ 1158
  • 03/20/08 H Read third and passed to be engrossed -HJ 1174
  • 03/27/08 H Enacted -HJ 1191
  • 03/27/08 S Enacted and laid before the Governor -SJ 1404
  • 04/04/08 G Governor returned to the Senate with an amendment
  • 04/07/08 S For message, see S2617
  • 04/07/08 S Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Bills in the Third Reading. -SJ 1432
  • 04/10/08 S Bills in the Third Reading report accepted
  • 04/10/08 S Governor's amendment adopted -SJs 1442-1443
  • 05/02/08 H Rules suspended
  • 05/02/08 H House concurred -HJ 1401
  • 05/05/08 H Re-enacted -HJ 1454
  • 05/06/08 S Re-enacted and again laid before the Governor -SJ 1539
  • 05/13/08 G Signed by the Governor, Chapter 103 of the Acts of 2008

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Bills are the most common form of proposals for laws. In order to become a law, a bill must be approved by a majority vote in both the House and the Senate, and then must be approved by the Governor.