Votes at a glance: Senate adopts awareness measures and procedural extension orders

The Massachusetts Senate on March 18 disposed of a series of calendar and committee business items alongside substantive floor measures.

Key outcomes: - S.2145, designating October 15 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day, passed on a roll-call vote recorded as 38 yeas, 0 nays after an emotional floor statement by the bill's sponsor. The clerk recorded the roll call as 38–0. - Resolutions commending Grant Marshall on becoming an Eagle Scout and recognizing March 2026 as Endometriosis Awareness Month were adopted by voice votes. - Two House bills directing individual personnel or waiving age requirements for police officers (including House 4142 for Jason DeLeon) were read a third time and passed to be engrossed. - Several committee extension orders (public safety, health care financing and public health) were adopted to allow committees additional time to hold hearings and produce reports; specific extension deadlines were recorded on the floor (examples: July 31 for some public safety items; March 31 and May 1 for health-care-financing matters). These are procedural actions to permit further committee vetting.

Next steps: Bills passed to be engrossed will be transmitted for executive consideration or returned to committee per the adopted extension orders.