Massachusetts Senate Bill 261 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2)
Status: Introduced on April 15 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-06-13 - Accompanied a new draft, see S2330
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

For legislation to improve literacy skills. Education.

To improve literacy skills

Sen. Salvatore DiDomenico [D]	Rep. Edward Coppinger [D]	Rep. Thomas Calter [D]	Rep. Timothy Madden [D]
Sen. Kathleen O'Connor Ives [D]	Rep. James Arciero [D]	Sen. Michael Rush [D]	Sen. Linda Forry [D]
Sen. William Brownsberger [D]	Sen. Daniel Wolf [D]	Rep. Frank Moran [D]	Rep. James Kelcourse [R]
Sen. Bruce Tarr [R]	Rep. Russell Holmes [D]	Sen. Diana DiZoglio [D]	Rep. Daniel Ryan [D]
Rep. Kevin Honan [D]	Rep. Carlos Gonzalez [D]	Sen. Nick Collins [D]	Rep. Michelle DuBois [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-06-13	Senate	Accompanied a new draft, see S2330
2016-03-16	Senate	Senate concurred
2016-03-16	House	Reporting date extended to Friday June 3, 2016, pending concurrence
2015-06-12	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 06/17/2015 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
2015-04-15	House	House concurred
2015-04-15	Senate	Referred to the Joint Committee on Education

S2330 (Replaced by) 2016-06-13 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
S129 (Similar To) 2016-07-07 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
S271 (Similar To) 2015-09-14 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means
S1243 (Similar To) 2016-06-23 - Accompanied a study order, see S2362
S624 (Similar To) 2016-06-23 - Accompanied a study order, see S2356
S492 (Similar To) 2016-06-06 - Accompanied a study order, see S2318

Type	Source
Summary	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S261
Text	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S261.pdf