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Votes at a glance: routine bills, resolutions and local measures adopted by the Senate

Massachusetts Senate · March 12, 2026
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Summary

The Senate adopted multiple resolutions and passed several House bills to be enacted, including measures on local payments, municipal charter amendments, and election validation; votes were by voice and counts were not specified.

The Massachusetts Senate on this session adopted resolutions and passed a number of House bills to be enacted by voice vote. Several items were procedural or local in nature and were passed to be engrossed for transmission to the governor.

Notable measures read and passed to be enacted include: - House Bill 2275: an act authorizing the city of Revere to pay a sum to Denise Madera, widow of former school committee member Anthony Madera (read and passed to be enacted). - House Bill 4143: an act authorizing the town of Wellesley to amend the income threshold for senior real property tax deferral (read and passed to be enacted). - House Bill 4292: an act amending the charter of the town of Hopkinton to incorporate appointment powers for the board of library trustees (read and passed to be enacted; transcript spelling varied). - House Bill 2258: an act enhancing certain powers of the Board of Water Commissioners of a fire district (reported by committee, read a third time and passed to be engrossed). - House Bill 2259: authorization for the Cotuit Fire District to raise and appropriate money for the Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit (read a third time and passed to be engrossed). - House Bill 4007: an act further regulating the composition of the licensing board for the city of Salem (read a third time and passed to be engrossed). - House Bill 4763: an act validating the results of the annual election held in the town of Warren on 05/20/2025 (read a third time and passed to be engrossed).

Also adopted were resolutions commending the town of Auburn and the Robert and Esther Goddard Centennial Committee for the centennial of the first liquid-fuel rocket.

All recorded floor votes in the transcript were voice votes; individual roll-call tallies were not specified on the record.