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H4212 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Lancaster to dissolve its animal control commission

An Act authorizing the town of Lancaster to dissolve its animal control commission

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Kilcoyne, Meghan K.
Last action
2026-05-12
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 77 of the Acts of 2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide information on when exactly the law takes effect or what happens to duties after dissolution.

Lancaster Can End Its Animal Control Commission

This law allows Lancaster to end its animal control commission.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows the town of Lancaster to dissolve its animal control commission.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Town of Lancaster

Terms To Know

Animal Control Commission
A group that helps take care of animals in a town.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what happens to the duties of the animal control commission after it is dissolved.
  • The law only affects Lancaster and does not change other towns' rules about animal control commissions.

Bill History

  1. 2026-05-12 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 77 of the Acts of 2026

  2. 2026-05-04 House

    Enacted

  3. 2026-05-04 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  5. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  6. 2025-10-23 Senate

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  7. 2025-10-14 Senate

    Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session

  8. 2025-10-09 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  9. 2025-09-02 House

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

  10. 2025-09-02 House

    Rules suspended

  11. 2025-09-02 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  12. 2025-08-04 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  13. 2025-07-09 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1

  14. 2025-06-12 Senate

    Senate concurred

  15. 2025-06-09 House

    Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Lancaster to dissolve its animal control commission
By Representative Kilcoyne of Clinton and Senator Cronin, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4212) of Meghan K. Kilcoyne and John J. Cronin (by vote of the town) that the town of Lancaster be authorized to dissolve the animal control commission of said town. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4212

SECTION 1. Chapter 179 of the Acts of 2004 is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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