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MA H 2896

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An Act providing for fairness and equity for Massachusetts Water Resources Authority employees

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

Description

By Representative Lewis of Framingham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2896) of Jack Patrick Lewis relative to collective bargaining of termination and discharge of employees of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. Public Service.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-07-01 — New draft substituted, see H5551
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Jack Patrick Lewisprimary
  • David Henry Argosky LeBoeufcosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Public Service

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  2. 2025-02-27

    Senate concurred

  3. 2025-09-25

    Hearing scheduled for 10/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-10-06

    Hearing rescheduled to 10/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-02:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  5. 2025-11-19

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

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  6. 2026-07-01

    Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5551

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  7. 2026-07-01

    Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending

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  8. 2026-07-01

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending

  9. 2026-07-01

    Rules suspended

  10. 2026-07-01

    Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)

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  11. 2026-07-01

    New draft substituted, see H5551

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2896

Attribution

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