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H4498 • 2025

An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway

An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway

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Sponsor
Blais, Natalie M.
Last action
2026-04-21
Official status
Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway

An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 4498) of Natalie M.
  • Blais and Paul W.
  • Mark (by vote of the town) relative to elections in the town of Conway.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-21 Senate

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

  2. 2026-04-16 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  3. 2026-03-16 House

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

  4. 2026-03-16 House

    Rules suspended

  5. 2026-03-16 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  6. 2026-02-17 House

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

  7. 2025-10-28 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 11/13/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2

  8. 2025-09-15 Senate

    Senate concurred

  9. 2025-09-11 House

    Referred to the committee on Election Laws

Official Summary Text

An Act regulating elections in the town of Conway
By Representative Blais of Deerfield and Senator Mark, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4498) of Natalie M. Blais and Paul W. Mark (by vote of the town) relative to elections in the town of Conway. Election Laws. [Local Approval Received.]

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Bill H.4498

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding chapter 53 of the general laws, or any other general or special law or by-law of the town of Conway to the contrary, the caucuses for the nomination of town officers shall be eliminated in the town of Conway, and the nomination of eligible candidates for town offices shall be made by the filing of nomination papers in accordance with sections 7 and 10 of chapter 35 of the general laws. Ballots used at a regular or special town election of town officers shall not have printed thereon a party or political designation or mark, and there shall not be any political designation or mark appended to the name of a candidate for town office.

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

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