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Votes at a glance: Senate orders dozens of bills to third reading and enacts several local measures
Summary
The Senate handled many procedural items and local bills by voice vote: it ordered large blocks of second-reading matters to third reading en bloc, ordered or enacted several local bills (charter changes, exemptions, and town-specific appropriations), and passed House Bill 4413 (bond terms) after adopting an emergency preamble.
The Massachusetts Senate completed a rapid series of voice votes on multiple local bills, resolutions and procedural matters at the start of the session. Several items were ordered to a third reading en bloc; others received final passage or enactment by voice vote.
Key outcomes recorded in floor discussion and voice votes in the supplied transcript:
- House Bill 4413 (an act providing for the terms of certain bonds to be issued by the Commonwealth): emergency preamble adopted; the bill was passed by the Senate and "laid before the governor for her approbation." (00:02:52–00:05:21)
- House Bill 4009 (authorizing MWRA sewer services to a parcel of…
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