SENATE DOCKET, NO. 3355        FILED ON: 7/26/2024

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 House Bill promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options (House, No. 4785), to be reported by the committee on Ways and Means with a recommended new text Senate document numbered 2899, on Monday, July 29, 2024, and read into the Senate Journal on Monday, July 29, 2024, shall be placed in the Orders of the Day for a second reading on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, with the Ways and Means new text S2899 pending.

All amendments shall be filed electronically in the office of the Clerk of the Senate by 5:00 P.M., on Monday, July 29, 2024. All such amendments shall be second reading-amendments to the Senate Ways and Means new text (Senate, No. 2899), 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.