Senate receives election laws committee reports on validating town actions and related measures
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Summary
The Senate received committee reports from the Committee on Election Laws recommending bills to validate Millbury town meeting proceedings and to ratify certain representative town meeting acts and official actions; committee on rules also recommended suspending reference for multiple petitions.
The Massachusetts Senate's brief session included committee reports from the Committee on Election Laws and the Committee on Rules. An unidentified committee reporter read a governor—ommunication recommending legislation to validate proceedings of the Millbury annual town meeting (printed 07/26/1978) and named John F. Keaton as serving on the committee.
The committee also reported a message recommending legislation to ratify all acts and proceedings of representative town meetings held since May 18, 2020, and certain actions taken by elected and appointed officials since April 11, 2015, and noted an accompanying bill listed in the transcript as "senate 26792." The Committee on Rules recommended relieving several petitions from reference and urged immediate consideration.
Senators used unanimous-consent procedures to suspend rules and order the listed matters to a third reading so they could be considered forthwith. No roll-call vote or debate on the substance of the measures was recorded in the session transcript; the committee reports and procedural suspensions were taken up by voice consent and referred to their respective committees where applicable.