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Senate adopts weekend adjournment, passes hospital workplace-violence bill; charter amendment for Barre sent forward
Summary
On April 15, the Senate adopted a joint resolution setting the weekend adjournment, passed S.259 on hospital workplace violence in concurrence, advanced H.10 (charter amendments for the city of Barre) to third reading, introduced S.151, and referred S.124 to the committee on rules.
The Senate adopted JRS 22 setting the weekend adjournment and approved several bills and orders on April 15 during a session of the Senate.
JRS 22, a joint resolution setting the adjournment so that when the two houses adjourn on Friday, April 18, 2025, they be scheduled to meet no later than Tuesday, April 22, 2025, was put to voice vote and adopted, the presiding officer announcing, “The ayes have it, and we have adopted JRS 22.”
The chamber also moved multiple legislative items through the calendar. S.259, "an act related to preventing workplace violence in a hospital," passed the Senate in concurrence after third reading. During second-reading discussion, the senator from Washington asked whether the bill covered reporting of domestic violence that occurred outside of the hospital; the senator clarified that, to their knowledge, the bill would cover domestic violence only if the incident occurred within the hospital.
S.124, an item listed on the calendar as…
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