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Results will provide a link to Bill History files found containing your phrase.
To link directly to a specific Bill History file
If you wish to bypass the menus and get a specific Bill History, use a URL of "http://www.mass.gov/legis/history/BRANCH#####.htm", where BRANCH is the single letter denoting the branch in which the bill was filed (h for House, s for Senate) and ##### is a five digit bill number use leading zeroes to pad the bill number). If there is a letter used in conjunction with the bill number, add it to the five digit section number.
Examples:
Senate, No. 588: http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/s00588.htm
House, No. 5441: http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/h05441.htm
House, No. 1A: http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/h00001a.htm
Senate, No. 1714, Appendix A: http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/s01714a.htm