Massachusetts Senate Bill 439 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-4)
Status: Introduced on April 15 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-07-05 - Accompanied a study order, see S2380
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

For legislation to ensure continued humane animal care and protect family farms in Massachusetts. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

To ensure continued humane animal care and protect family farms in Massachusetts

Sen. Jason Lewis [D]	Rep. Chris Walsh [D]	Rep. Lori Ehrlich [D]	Rep. Paul Heroux [D]
Sen. Joan Lovely [D]	Rep. Timothy Madden [D]	Rep. Ruth Balser [D]	Sen. James Eldridge [D]
Sen. Michael Barrett [D]	Rep. Angelo D'Emilia [R]	Sen. Cynthia Creem [D]	Rep. Leonard Mirra [R]
Rep. Thomas Calter [D]	Sen. William Brownsberger [D]	Sen. Thomas McGee [D]	Rep. Marjorie Decker [D]
Rep. Alice Peisch [D]	Sen. Patricia Jehlen [D]	Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz [D]	Sen. John Keenan [D]
Rep. Thomas Petrolati [D]	Rep. Thomas Stanley [D]	Rep. Daniel Ryan [D]	Rep. Sean Garballey [D]
Sen. Linda Forry [D]	Rep. James Arciero [D]	Rep. Denise Provost [D]	Sen. Salvatore DiDomenico [D]
Sen. Robert Hedlund [R]	Sen. Richard Ross [R]	Sen. Mark Montigny [D]	Rep. Timothy Toomey [D]
Rep. Brian Mannal [D]	Sen. Thomas Kennedy [D]	Sen. John Velis [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-07-05	Senate	Accompanied a study order, see S2380
2015-10-20	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 10/28/2015 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2015-04-15	House	House concurred
2015-04-15	Senate	Referred to the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture

S2380 (Replaced by) 2016-07-08 - Discharged to the committee on Senate Rules
S1176 (Similar To) 2016-03-28 - Accompanied a study order, see S2199
H1456 (Similar To) 2016-09-22 - Accompanied a study order, see H4624
H713 (Similar To) 2016-04-04 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
S876 (Similar To) 2016-04-04 - Accompanied a study order, see S2204
S409 (Similar To) 2016-07-05 - Accompanied a study order, see S2380
S1801 (Similar To) 2016-06-23 - Accompanied a study order, see S2361

Type	Source
Summary	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S439
Text	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S439.pdf