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Massachusetts Senate adopts emergency preambles, enacts a package of municipal and personnel bills and adjourns in memory of two public servants

Senate · December 16, 2024
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The Senate adopted emergency preambles and moved multiple house and senate bills to final passage — including local liquor and licensing measures, municipal employment authorizations, and sick-leave banks for state employees — then adjourned in memory of Gregory Bialycki and Agnes Ricco.

The Massachusetts Senate on the floor moved a number of procedural and local measures to final passage, adopted emergency preambles tied to personnel-sick-leave matters, and adjourned in memory of two public servants.

Clerk and presiding officers read a series of bills for enactment. Items listed for final passage included a Westport authorization to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption (Senate No. 2858), authorization for the town of Hull to issue pension obligation bonds (House No. 2084, amended), renaming a Falmouth bridge (House No. 3466, amended), changing a Swampscott board of selectmen to a select board…

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