The Massachusetts Senate on July 3, 2025, adopted an emergency preamble and approved measures to establish sick‑leave banks for several named employees, moving one bill to final passage and placing others on third reading or engrossment status.

The action began when the presiding officer called for a standing count on an emergency preamble required under the state constitution; after a roll call the presiding officer said, “Emergency preamble is adopted.” The Senate then took up multiple private bills that create sick‑leave banks for individual public employees, including bills for Jato Charlatan (House bill H4182), Steven Forget (House bill H4103), and James Caruso (House bill H4230).

Senators approved final passage of the bill establishing a sick‑leave bank for Jato Charlatan and the presiding officer announced the measure would be transmitted to the governor. For the bill for Steven Forget, the Senate granted unanimous consent to take up the measure and ordered it to a third reading. The House-originated bill for James Caruso came from the House “passed to be engrossed” and was ordered to a third reading after a request to suspend the rules.

Senate procedures recorded on the floor included multiple requests for suspension of the rules to consider House measures and the routine clerk readings required for third‑reading consideration. Where the chamber called for counts or unanimous consent, no specific numerical vote tallies were stated on the record for the standing counts or voice votes cited in the transcript.

These measures are private, employee‑specific acts that, if enacted, authorize the creation of a sick‑leave bank limited to the named employee and subject to any statutory or administrative limits governing such private legislation. The transcript records the Senate following its usual floor procedures — including reading titles, taking counts for emergency preambles, and ordering bills to third reading or engrossment — but does not include details of the underlying eligibility criteria for the sick‑leave banks or the votes by individual senators beyond the chamber’s voice and standing declarations.