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MA H 4531

enacted

An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date

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

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Quick answers

Did MA H 4531 pass?

Yes. MA H 4531 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-09-23): Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025

What is MA H 4531 about?

MA H 4531 is a bill in the 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) titled “An Act relative to the 2026 state primary election date”.

Who sponsors MA H 4531?

House Committee on Ways and Means is the primary sponsor of MA H 4531.

Introduced
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Latest action
2025-09-23 — Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025
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Sponsors

  • House Committee on Ways and Meansprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

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  1. 2025-09-23

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 34 of the Acts of 2025

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  2. 2025-09-18

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

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  3. 2025-09-18

    Enacted

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  4. 2025-09-18

    Emergency preamble adopted

  5. 2025-09-18

    Emergency preamble adopted

  6. 2025-09-18

    Read third (title change) and passed to be engrossed

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  7. 2025-09-18

    Ordered to a third reading

  8. 2025-09-18

    Amendment (Rausch) rejected

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  9. 2025-09-18

    Read, rules suspended, read second

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  10. 2025-09-17

    Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed

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  11. 2025-09-17

    Rules suspended

  12. 2025-09-17

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  13. 2025-09-17

    Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

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  14. 2025-09-17

    Reported on a part of H4429

  15. 2025-09-17

    Reported by the committee on House Ways and Means

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Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4531

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