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Massachusetts Senate adopts series of local acts, establishes sick-leave bank and sets next meeting
Summary
The Massachusetts Senate adopted a package of primarily local measures — including an emergency preamble establishing a sick leave bank for a trial-court employee, a waiver of a police age limit for a named officer, and several municipal authorizations — and agreed to reconvene Monday at 11:00 a.m.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate on the floor today adopted a batch of mostly local bills and formal actions, including an emergency preamble to establish a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay, a waiver of the City of Boston Police Department’s maximum age requirement for a named officer, and approvals allowing towns to repurpose municipal property and convert certain liquor licenses.
The chamber adopted a resolution congratulating John Lennon on his retirement from the Milton Board of Appeals and then approved the emergency preamble for House No. 4647, an act establishing a sick leave bank for Amy Tanguay, an employee of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth. Members were counted for the required standing vote; the chair announced the emergency preamble was adopted after two members rose in the affirmative and no members registered a negative vote.
By unanimous consent, the Senate took up an act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a police officer identified in the record as Cheryl Malay (the transcript contains a variant spelling, “Cheryl Malaise”). That item was read a third time and passed to be engrossed.
Other local measures the chamber approved included House No. 4314, allowing the town of Hingham to use municipal property as the location for a Center for Active Living, and a bill authorizing the town of Milford to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages into a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises (House references in the record: 4314 and 4349/4359 as read). A senator identified as Miss Rauch moved and the Senate adopted an amendment striking all after the enacting clause and inserting language from senate document 2893; the amendment was adopted and the underlying bill passed to be engrossed.
The chamber also read a House petition from John Barrett relative to school choice (House document 5312), suspended Joint Rule 12 and referred the petition to the Committee on Education. Senators then approved the final passage of several additional measures (the transcript lists items including S2625, described as providing for issuance of revenue bonds for telecommunications facilities by the city of Quincy, and other local enactments). The bills were reported passed to be enacted and will be signed by the president and laid before the governor for approval.
Before adjourning, Senator Tarr (identified as the senator from 1st Essex and Middlesex) offered and the Senate adopted an order that the body reconvene on Monday next at 11:00 a.m. Tarr then moved the adjournment and the Senate agreed. The session concluded with brief thanks exchanged among members.
