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Senate passes series of municipal and personnel bills; third readings ordered to be engrossed
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate read several House bills a third time and ordered them to be engrossed, approving municipal charters, sick leave banks, and local acts. Bills were passed to be signed and laid before the governor.
During the session the Senate took up a block of routine legislation and approved a series of third readings and engrossments. The legislation included municipal charters, local special acts, and multiple sick leave bank bills requested for specific named employees.
Among the items read and passed to be engrossed were (as read on the floor): House Bill 3901 (an act exempting the position of assistant fire chief in the town of Natick from the civil service law), House Bill 4009 (authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer service to a parcel in Sharon), House Bill 4521 (establishing a sick leave bank for Kathleen Rodrigue, employee of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner), House Bill 4205 (authorizing a Watertown lease for 124 Watertown Street), House Bill 4211 (changing the term of the elected office of moderator in Holden), House Bill 4252 (updating the linkage exaction program in Medford), and House Bill 4514 (establishing a sick leave bank for Candy J. Pike at the Department of Developmental Services). Each bill was read a third time and the Senate passed the question to engross the bills; they will be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approval.
Procedural note
These actions were taken under suspension of the rules and in the regular orders of the day. Where the clerk and the presiding officer indicated "no objection," the matters were advanced under the chamber's procedural rules and recorded as passed to be engrossed.
