During the same Senate session, members suspended joint rule 12 and other procedural rules to consider multiple House petitions and bills forthwith and referred them to their respective committees.
Clerks reported that the committee on rules recommended suspension of joint rule 12. The record shows Senator John B. Lovely presenting that committee report. Subsequent motions to suspend rule 36 and joint rule 12 were recorded as granted, and clerks noted that matters would be referred to their several committees.
A House petition and bill (House Number 4004) pertaining to the town of Hardwick were taken up and ordered to third reading after the clerk read the results of a special election for that town; the bill was then ordered to be engrossed. Separately, one matter recorded as House Number 801—an act relative to the town of Cheshire's special election—came up for final passage; the clerk recorded passage, and the bill was recorded as passed, to be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approval.
The transcript also shows a House petition filed by Michael O'More for legislation on applied behavioral analysis reimbursement rates (recorded as Senate number 2587). The House endorsed the petition, concurred in suspending joint rule 12, and did not concur in reference to the Committee on Financial Services; the petition was instead referred to the Committee on Health Care Financing, according to the clerk's reading.
The actions recorded in the excerpt are procedural: rule suspensions, referrals to committees, ordering bills to third reading, and final passage for one town-related bill. The excerpt does not include bill text, any floor debate on substance, nor committee reports containing legislative language.