H5058 • 2025

An Act designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse

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Sponsor: Judiciary (J)
Last action: 2026-02-09
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse

An Act designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

What This Bill Does

An Act designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse Status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill History

2026-02-09 House
Reported from the committee on The Judiciary
2026-02-09 House
New draft of H1761
2026-02-09 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means

Official Summary Text

An Act designating the Charlestown division of Boston Municipal Court as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.5058

The Charlestown District courthouse in the city of Charlestown shall be designated and known as the George Lewis Ruffin Courthouse in honor of the honorable George Lewis Ruffin, the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, to serve on the Boston City Council and to be appointed as a judge in Massachusetts, who served as a judge in the Charlestown District Court, for his many contributions to the judiciary, the bar and the people of the city of Boston. The division of capital asset management and maintenance shall erect and maintain suitable markers bearing the designation in compliance with the standards of the division

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