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Mass. Senate suspends rules to advance petitions on sick-leave bank and transit-worker assault; referrals sent to judiciary
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate voted by voice to suspend internal rules and move two separate petitions for consideration and referral to the Judiciary Committee.
The Massachusetts Senate voted by voice to suspend internal rules and move two separate petitions for consideration and referral to the Judiciary Committee during its floor session.
Senators suspended Senate Rule 36 and Joint Rule 12 to allow immediate consideration of a petition to establish a sick‑leave bank for Andrew Sotira and a petition related to an assault and battery allegation involving a transit worker. Both motions passed on voice votes with no recorded roll-call tally.
Senator Collins, the senator from First Suffolk, urged the chamber to allow the measures to proceed. “This issue also has a companion bill in the House of Representatives,” Collins said, adding that…
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