Senate places FY2025 supplemental appropriation bill on calendar, sets amendment filing deadline for June 16

The Senate's Committee on Ways and Means reported a supplemental appropriation bill for fiscal year 2025 (Senate bill S.2529) and the chamber adopted an order placing the bill on the Orders of the Day for a second meeting on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

The order, presented on the floor by the senator from Bristol and Plymouth, Senator Roberts, specified filing instructions and deadlines: "All amendments shall be filed electronically in the office of the clerk of the senate by 02:30PM on Monday, 06/16/2025, and all such amendments shall be second reading amendments," the order states. The clerk was directed to specify the procedural format for filing consistent with that order, and the order directed that after the bill is amended as ordered it shall be immediately read a third time.

The committee report described the measure as a bill "making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations for certain other activities and projects" and listed direct appropriations in the report. The transcript reported the figure as "$532,563, and $0.08." That figure was recorded in committee text on the floor; the clerk will publish the official printed bill and fiscal notes.

The procedural order was adopted by unanimous consent on the floor after a motion was introduced; later the consent calendar actions included adoption of a separate resolution (S.2530) designating August 2025 as a sales tax holiday. No substantive revisions to S.2529 were adopted on the floor; the amendment filing deadline directs the timeline for senators to submit changes for second-reading consideration ahead of the scheduled session on June 18.

Questions about line-item amounts, program detail, or fiscal notes will be resolved through the committee and printed bill materials prior to the scheduled second reading.