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Senate suspends rules to advance House 4245 on select board, sets bill for third reading
Summary
The Senate voted to suspend procedural rules — including Senate Rule 36 and Joint Rule 12 — to take up House 4245 (an act relative to the select board), ordered the bill to third reading and adopted an adjournment order for Monday at 11 a.m.; actions were taken by voice vote with no recorded roll-call.
The Senate approved suspensions of procedural rules and moved House 4245, “An Act relative to the select board,” to a third reading, the chamber announced during a brief session that concluded with an adjournment order. A committee report recommended suspending Joint Rule 12, and Senator Dooner, the senator from the Third Bristol and Plymouth district, moved to suspend Senate Rule 36 “to allow the matters to be considered forthwith.” The Senate approved the suspensions by voice vote; the clerk then took House 4245 out of the orders of the day and the bill was ordered to a third reading. The chamber also adopted an order that, when it adjourned, it would reconvene on Monday next at 11:00 a.m., and directed the clerk to dispense with printing a calendar for that session. Those procedural items were approved by voice vote. The transcript records no substantive debate on the contents of House 4245 during the session. The actions on rules and on House 4245 are procedural steps that advance the bill in the legislative process; the transcript does not record any floor debate or floor amendments to the bill during the recorded proceedings. The Senate adjourned after adopting the scheduling order.
