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The chair said Kenny \"passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family on August 18, just days before his 100th birthday.\" The presiding officer read a remembrance that said Kenny was \"born and raised in South Boston,\" served in the United States Navy aboard LSTs during World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters including on D-Day, and later worked for the city of Boston as a firefighter on the fire boat and in Engine Company 1.

\"Ed lived a long and remarkable life within love, service, and community,\" the chair read. The remarks listed family members by name and noted he shared 56 years of marriage with Mary T. McDonough Kenny and was the father of five children named in the record.

Senator Durant moved that the Senate adjourn in memory of Edward F. Kenny; the chair put the question and members approved the motion by voice. The clerk then read an order that the Senate reconvene Thursday next at 11:00 a.m.

Why it matters: legislative bodies customarily recognize former service members and public servants; the record provided the family's names and details of Kenny's military and firefighting service but does not include additional biographical documents or outside verification.

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Senator Joan B. Lovely, speaking for the committee, read a report \"recommend[ing] that joint rule 12 be suspended with reference thereto,\" and the presiding officer then put the question; \"the ayes have it,\" the chair announced and the rules were suspended. The chamber also suspended a Senate rule (referred to in the record as Senate Rule 36P) to allow matters to be considered forthwith.

Why it matters: suspending rules and ordering bills to a third reading accelerates their legislative progress by bypassing standard timing or referral requirements, allowing the chamber to consider the measures sooner than under ordinary order.

Most immediate actions recorded were procedural. The presiding officer said a bill to authorize the town of Marblehead to [act on] parking violations (identified in the record as Senate No. 2528) was ordered to a third reading after the chair put the question and \"the ayes have it.\" Separately, a bill described in the record as increasing the membership of a board of health (No. 3912) was likewise ordered to a third reading.

The clerk read an order that, when the Senate adjourns, it should reconvene on Thursday next at 11:00 a.m.; members approved that order with no recorded objection. Earlier in the session the emergency preamble was adopted and resolutions were adopted, both announced by the chair as passed.

The transcript records no roll-call tallies tied to individual members for these actions; the chair repeatedly used voice approval (\"all the ayes have it\") and noted when there was \"no objection.\" Senator Joan B. Lovely presented the committee recommendation on joint rule 12; Senator Reynolds was recorded in the discussion of suspending Senate Rule 36P. No formal floor debate or amendments to the cited bills appear in the record provided.

Looking ahead: the measures advanced by ordering a third reading remain pending further consideration at subsequent floor sessions.

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Senate adjourns in memory of Edward F. Kenny, Navy veteran and Boston firefighter

Senate suspends rules to advance Marblehead parking and board-of-health bills to third reading