Massachusetts Senate Bill 400 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-04-04 - Accompanied a study order, see S2399
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

For legislation to remove unfair incumbent advantage from the ballot and to change unenrolled to independent. Election Laws.

To remove unfair incumbent advantage from the ballot and to change "unenrolled" to "Unaffiliated"

Sen. Bruce Tarr [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-04-04	Senate	Accompanied a study order, see S2399
2017-10-04	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 10/12/2017 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2017-01-23	House	House concurred
2017-01-23	Senate	Referred to the Joint Committee on Election Laws

S798 (Similar To) 2018-03-01 - Accompanied a study order, see S2313
S314 (Similar To) 2018-04-17 - Accompanied a study order, see S2428
S970 (Similar To) 2018-03-01 - Accompanied a study order, see S2313
S445 (Similar To) 2018-04-23 - Accompanied a new draft, see S2463
H460 (Similar To) 2017-12-07 - Accompanied a new draft, see S2230
H377 (Similar To) 2018-02-28 - Accompanied a study order, see H4252
H1778 (Similar To) 2018-06-25 - Accompanied a study order, see H4651
S2336 (Similar To) 2018-07-19 - New draft substituted, see S2610
S2399 (Replaced by) 2018-04-09 - Reported (in part) by S2069

Type	Source
Summary	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S400
Text	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S400.pdf