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Votes at a glance: Senate passes a package of local charters, civil‑service authorizations and other measures
Summary
During the session the Senate passed a series of third‑reading and final‑passage measures — local charter amendments, civil service examination authorizations, and naming/administrative bills — which were ordered to be engrossed and will be processed following standard post‑passage steps.
The Senate moved through a series of third‑reading and final‑passage items, approving multiple local charter amendments, civil service examination authorizations and other measures and ordering them to be engrossed or enacted.
Measures taken up and advanced on the floor included charter amendments for Nantucket and Provincetown, local authorizations and housekeeping measures, and several individual authorizations allowing named applicants to sit for civil service or firefighter examinations in Haverhill and other municipalities. The chamber also approved enactment of bills noted on the floor such as an act amending the fair housing ordinance in Cambridge (H 4234) and the naming of the State Public Health Laboratory campus as the Dr. Alfred DeMaria Jr. Campus (H 5063).
Throughout the session senators regularly asked unanimous consent to suspend the rules to consider matters forthwith; the chair granted those requests and the clerk announced that these bills were passed to be enacted. The transcript records the floor instruction that passed bills will be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approval.
Other routine business included committee reports on matters placed in order for the next session (for example, committee reports from Rules and Ways and Means) and an extension order for a Judiciary Committee review of an adoption bill. The Senate adjourned after observing moments of silence in memory of Margaret 'Peggy' Dwyer O'Connor and Mary Catherine Bailey.
What passed: the transcript lists numerous individual items passed to be engrossed or enacted (local charters, H 4234, H 4063/H 5063 and a series of civil service authorizations such as House numbers 4859–4953). The floor record does not list detailed roll‑call tallies for these routine third‑reading votes; the clerk repeatedly announced "The ayes have it."
