{"jurisdiction":"Massachusetts","date":"2025-07-01","enacted_since_2025":365,"dated":344,"undated":21,"laws":[{"number":"H 3952","title":"An Act authorizing Dartmouth Fire District No. 1 to appoint the position of Treasurer","topic":"Government","session":"2025 Regular Session","url":"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3952","resolution":"stated","provisional":false,"staggered":false,"basis":{"clause":{"quote":"This act shall take effect as of July 1, 2025.","section":null,"text_label":"Chapter 96 of the Acts of 2025"}}},{"number":"H 4240","title":"An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2026 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements","topic":"Budget","session":"2025 Regular Session","url":"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4240","resolution":"stated","provisional":false,"staggered":true,"basis":{"clause":{"quote":"Except as otherwise specified, this act shall take effect on July 1, 2025","section":null,"text_label":"Chapter 9 of the Acts of 2025"}}}],"not_yet_dated":[{"number":"H 2268","title":"An Act Bridgewater town charter article II, legislative branch section 2-13(a) annual stipend","url":"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2268","resolution":"contingent","reason":"Acceptance by a majority of the voters in the city known as the town of Bridgewater"},{"number":"H 2313","title":"An Act relative to the Regional Commissions on the Status of Women","url":"https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2313","resolution":"unresolved","reason":"whether the act may be the subject of a referendum petition isn't known (neither its title nor its text shows whether it may be the subject of a referendum petition: it names no town, city or district, and it amends no section of the General Laws); Mass. 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