SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2848        FILED ON: 11/9/2023

Senate, November 9, 2023 -- Order (Senator Rodrigues) relative to procedures to be followed when considering the Senate Bill relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency (Senate, No. 2492)

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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Ordered, That notwithstanding Senate Rule 7 or any other rule to the contrary, the Senate Bill relative to pharmaceutical access, costs and transparency (Senate, No. 2492) (the committee on Ways and Means having recommended that the bill be amended by substituting a new draft with the same title Senate, No. 2499) shall be placed in the Orders of the Day for a second reading on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.

All amendments shall be filed electronically in the office of the Clerk of the Senate by 5:00 P.M, on Monday, November 13, 2023. All such amendments shall be second reading amendments to the Senate Ways and Means new draft (Senate, No. 2499), but further amendments in the third degree to such amendments shall be in order. The Clerk shall further specify the procedure and format for filing all amendments, consistent with this order.

After the bill as amended is ordered to a third reading, it shall immediately be read a third time and the question shall then immediately be on passing it to be engrossed, and no amendments shall be in order at the third reading of the bill unless recommended by the committee on Bills in the Third Reading.