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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
Summary
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 (House No. 4086), local municipal employment continuations and authorizations (several House numbers), and measures to order bills to third reading and to be engrossed.
The Senate adopted emergency preambles for a number of measures, including the establishment of sick-leave banks for state employees (one example referenced: the sick leave bank for Kimberly Martinelli at Department of Corrections, House No. 4980). Where counts were recorded on the floor, the transcript notes tallies such as 18 and 20 members voting in the affirmative on different emergency preambles or voice-roll calls; most measures were carried by the affirmative vote or by unanimous voice vote.
Senator Moranck (as named in the transcript) explained that concurrence in two extension orders would extend seven bills to Dec. 31 — items described on the floor included excise matters for private institutions, payments by large charitable organizations, vehicle rental company tax treatment, and a Nantucket transfer adoption. The chamber voted to adopt the extension orders.
The Senate also took up and passed two sick-leave-bank bills to be enacted, and before adjournment adopted motions to remember Gregory P. Bialycki of Newton and Agnes Ricco with a moment of silence. Enacted bills were announced to be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approbation.
Votes at a glance (as recorded on the floor): - Emergency preambles: adopted (counts cited in transcript: 18 and 20 in the affirmative on separate preambles). - House No. 4980 (sick leave bank for Kimberly Martinelli, Dept. of Corrections): emergency preamble adopted; bill to be enacted. - Additional listed measures (Senate No. 2858; House Nos. 2084, 3466, 4086, 4215, 4560, 4627, 5062 and multiple others): moved to engrossment or enacted and to be signed by the president and laid before the governor.
Where the transcript recorded procedural ballots or counts, the clerk announced the results on the floor; several measures were taken en bloc and recorded as passed to be engrossed or enacted.
