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H4589 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill

An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill

Enacted

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

Sponsor
Aaron L. Saunders
Last action
2026-02-11
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill

An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill By Representative Saunders of Belchertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill By Representative Saunders of Belchertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 4589) of Aaron L.
  • Saunders (by vote of the town) that the town of Ludlow be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill.
  • Municipalities and Regional Government.

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. 2026-02-11 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 2026

  2. 2026-02-02 House

    Enacted

  3. 2026-02-02 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2026-01-29 Senate

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  5. 2026-01-29 Senate

    Rules suspended

  6. 2026-01-29 Senate

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  7. 2025-12-01 Senate

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

  8. 2025-11-26 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  9. 2025-11-06 House

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

  10. 2025-11-06 House

    Rules suspended

  11. 2025-11-06 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  12. 2025-10-30 House

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

  13. 2025-10-14 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/14/2025 from 02:00 PM-02:00 PM in Written Testimony Only

  14. 2025-10-09 Senate

    Senate concurred

  15. 2025-10-06 House

    Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill
By Representative Saunders of Belchertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4589) of Aaron L. Saunders (by vote of the town) that the town of Ludlow be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4589

SECTION 1.

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Town of Ludlow is hereby authorized to pay from any available funds during the current fiscal year a certain unpaid bill incurred by said Town totaling ninety-eight thousand six hundred twenty dollars and zero cents as set forth in an invoice on file in the office of the Town Administrator in the Town of Ludlow for goods supplied and services rendered to said Town during the year two thousand and twenty four, which bill is legally unenforceable against said town.

SECTION 2.

No bill shall be approved by the Town or paid by said Town under the authority of this act, unless and until a certificate has been signed and filed with said Town stating, under penalties of perjury, that the goods or services for which said bill had been submitted were ordered by an official or an employee of said Town, and that such goods were delivered and actually received by said Town and that such services were rendered to such Town, or both.

SECTION 3.

This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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