During a long floor session the Senate took grouped votes to pass dozens of municipal, technical and local measures by voice vote, frequently taking unanimous consent to suspend the rules and consider matters "forthwith." The votes covered a broad array of items, including changes to local charters, authorization of additional alcoholic‑beverage licenses for towns, appointments to continue certain municipal employees, and ceremonial acts such as designating February 4 as Rosa Parks Day (House bill 3075).
Examples enumerated on the floor and enacted by single votes or grouped enactments included (not exhaustive):
- House 4131 — regulating acceptance of certain types of identification to purchase alcohol (3rd reading and passed to be engrossed).
- House 4132 — allowing electronic delivery receipts for certain bulk sale customers (passed to be engrossed).
- House 4551 and 4638 — several enactments authorizing town mayoral vacancy filings and municipal employment/candidacy rules (passed to be engrossed).
- House 4272, 4842, 4940 and many others — a large list of municipal charter changes, licensing adjustments, and local property or procedural items were read a third time and passed to be engrossed or enacted.
Most roll calls were handled as voice votes: the clerk read the items, senators asked unanimous consent to consider them forthwith, and the chamber recorded "the ayes have it" for passage. The transcript shows these as grouped enactments rather than protracted debate on individual local measures.
What this means: the session cleared a substantial number of local and technical bills—town charters, license authorizations, and local personnel exceptions—allowing those measures to move to the governor's desk for approval. Because the transcript records voice votes and grouped enactments, the record does not include roll‑call tallies for most of these individual local measures.
Next steps: The president will sign the passed bills and lay them before the governor for approbation, per the transcript. Individual effect dates, funding impacts, and implementation details were not specified on the floor for most local items presented in grouped votes.