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MA S 2552

introduced

An Act authorizing the town of Berkley to recall elected officials

Massachusetts · 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) · upper

Description

By Mrs. Dooner and Mr. Orall of Berkeley, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2552) of Kelly A. Dooner and Norman J. Orrall (by vote of the town) to authorize the town of Berkley to recall elected officials. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-04-06 — New draft substituted (Dooner), see S3018
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Kelly A. Doonercosponsor
  • Norman J. Orrallcosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-07-10

    Referred to the committee on Election Laws

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  2. 2025-07-14

    House concurred

  3. 2025-08-29

    Hearing scheduled for 09/16/2025 from 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in B-1

  4. 2025-10-27

    Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session

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  5. 2025-11-13

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

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  6. 2026-04-06

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  7. 2026-04-06

    Read third

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  8. 2026-04-06

    New draft substituted (Dooner), see S3018

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Replaces: SD 3046not in this corpus

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2552

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:22:56.590024Z

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