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Senate advances several bills on third reading, enacts two measures and sets adjournment
Summary
The Senate moved multiple bills through third readings — including benefits for a former Boston firefighter and a Taunton water‑billing change — enacted two house measures and adopted an order to reconvene Thursday at 11:00 a.m.; voice votes were used and tallies were not specified.
The Senate advanced several bills on third reading and enacted two House measures during a brief session on Monday, taking actions on firefighter benefits, a Taunton water‑billing change, a municipal recall measure, a recognition week and two final enactments before adjourning to meet Thursday at 11:00 a.m.
Speaker 1 moved multiple items from the orders of the day for third reading. Speaker 2 summarized Senate No. 2574 as providing accidental death benefits for the surviving spouse of a former City of Boston firefighter; the Senate voted by voice to pass the bill to be engrossed. "The ayes have it," Speaker 1 said after the voice vote.
The chamber similarly advanced Senate No. 2652, described by Speaker 2 as an act authorizing the city of Taunton to establish a separate water‑supply billing rate for manufactured housing communities; that bill was passed to be engrossed by voice vote. Speaker 1 then took House No. 862 for third reading, which Speaker 2 described as providing for the recall of elected offices in the town of Sharon; that bill also passed to be engrossed.
Senate No. 2110, naming the last week in April as Building Trades Recovery Week, was taken up and passed to be engrossed after third reading. Later in the session the Senate considered two measures for final passage: House No. 924, an act further regulating the Great Barrington Fire District, and House No. 4859, authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill. Both were enacted; the clerk will sign and the bills will be presented to the governor for approval.
Senator O'Connor offered an order — read by Speaker 1 — directing that the Senate adjourn to meet Thursday next at 11:00 a.m. and directing the clerk to suspend printing of the calendar. The Senate adopted the order by voice vote, and Speaker 1 then moved to adjourn; the motion carried and the Senate stood adjourned until the scheduled reconvening.
Most actions were resolved by voice vote; the transcript records the chair announcing that "the ayes have it" for several items but does not provide roll‑call tallies or named vote records. No amendments, recorded roll calls, or recorded dissenting votes were noted in the available transcript.
