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Senate votes to order House bill on COVID-19 measures to third reading
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate suspended rules and ordered a House bill relating to the extension of certain COVID-19 measures to a third reading after a voice vote.
The Massachusetts Senate voted to order a House bill “relative to extending certain COVID 19 measures” to a third reading after suspending the rules to consider the measure forthwith.
Senator Patrick O'Connor, identified in the record as the senator from Plymouth and Norfolk, moved that the rules be suspended so the matter could be considered immediately. The chair recorded no objection to suspending the rules and the question then came on ordering the bill to a third reading. The Senate used a voice vote; the presiding officer said the ayes had it and the bill was ordered to third reading.
Ordering a bill to a third reading advances it toward final passage by placing it on the next stage of the Senate’s legislative calendar. The transcript does not include a bill number, text of the bill, or the names of individual senators recorded in a roll-call tally; those details were not specified in the session record.
No further debate or amendments on the bill were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
