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Senate adopts orders for joint sessions to consider three proposed constitutional amendments
Summary
The Senate adopted orders calling joint sessions of the two houses to consider three proposed constitutional amendments — on agricultural and horticultural land (Senate No. 11), on capping the state income tax (Senate No. 12), and on requiring a majority vote to use the rainy day fund (Senate No. 13) — and referred House petitions to committees after suspending Joint Rule 12.
The Senate adopted orders calling joint sessions of the two houses to consider three proposed amendments to the state constitution: Senate No. 11 on agricultural and horticultural land; Senate No. 12 to cap the state income tax; and Senate No. 13 to require a majority vote to use the state rainy day fund. The orders were presented by senators and adopted by voice vote without recorded objection.
The proposals were read into the record by the clerk under provisions cited from the amendments to the constitution. Miss Cammockford, the senator representing Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester, presented the order for Senate…
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