Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session Apr 27th, 2026

Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting

Key Moments

  • H4602 — Final passage is pending on a bill increasing the membership of the select board in the town of Munson.
  • Bruce Tarr — Bruce Tarr’s committee status was addressed in sequence: his resignation from the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading was announced, and he was subsequently reappointed to that same committee.
  • Peter Durant — Peter Durant is referenced throughout a continuous Senate floor sequence in which he is appointed to fill a vacancy on the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading, his resignation from that committee is received, and he then takes the floor to move suspension of the rules so the matter can be considered forthwith. During the discussion, he asks how many bills are involved and what the extension date will be, is told there will be seven bills until June 30th once the order is adopted, and later is identified as offering an amendment and moving that the Senate adjourn.
  • Joan Lovely — She reported for the Committee on Rules of the Two Branches.
  • Joanne Comerford — Joan B. Lovely reported for the committee.
  • Robyn Kennedy — Robyn Kennedy, the senator from Worcester, presented an amendment to the bill. The amendment proposed changing the date in the bill from April 30, 2026 to June 30, 2026, and the transcript includes a misrendered reference to 'Mr. Kennedy' while describing the same amendment.
  • H4259 — H4259, an act designating the Wider Park tennis courts as the Kim O'Connell Tennis Courts, is taken up for final passage, with an emergency preamble and standing vote required, and is ultimately passed to be enacted.