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Senate enacts several local measures and employee sick‑leave banks, sends bills to governor
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate on the floor moved to consider and pass several House bills and employee sick‑leave bank measures, ordering them to be engrossed or enacted and preparing them to go to the governor for approval.
The Massachusetts Senate on the floor moved to consider and pass several House bills and employee sick‑leave bank measures, ordering them to be engrossed or enacted and preparing them to go to the governor for approval.
The measures taken up included: House No. 1590, establishing a sick‑leave bank for Eric J. Owaniak (an employee of the trial court of the Commonwealth); House No. 4514, establishing a sick‑leave bank for Candy J. Pike (an employee of the Department of Developmental Services); House No. 2251, establishing a special fund for Festival of the Hills receipts for the town of Conway; House No. 4205, authorizing the city of Watertown to lease property located at 124 Watertown Street; House No. 4211, changing the term of the elected office of moderator in the town of Holden; and House Nos. 4050/4252, updating the linkage exaction program in the city of Medford.
Senator Graham moved to suspend the rules to consider some matters forthwith; that motion carried and the Senate proceeded with third readings and final passage votes where appropriate. The clerk announced that the questions on passage were agreed to — in the transcript the clerk repeatedly noted “the ayes have it”—and that passed measures would be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approbation.
The Senate also adopted an emergency preamble under the Constitution for House No. 4514 (the Candy J. Pike sick‑leave bank). The clerk called for members to rise for a standing vote on the preamble and later announced the preamble was adopted.
Several items were referred to their respective committees under suspension of Joint Rule 12 earlier in the session; the Senate recessed briefly at multiple points to accommodate consideration and procedural business.
No detailed roll‑call tallies or recorded individual votes appear in the transcript for the listed final‑passage questions beyond the clerk’s statements that the ayes prevailed and routine confirmations that signed measures would be presented to the governor.
