SENATE DOCKET, NO. 3301        FILED ON: 10/17/2025

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)

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Ordered, That notwithstanding Senate Rule 7 or any other rule to the contrary, the House Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects (House, No. 4615) to be reported by the committee on Ways and Means with a recommended new text Senate document numbered 2655 on Monday, October 20, 2025, and read into the Senate Journal on Monday, October 20, 2025, shall be placed in the Orders of the Day for a second reading on Thursday, October 23, 2025, for immediate consideration with the Ways and Means new text pending.

All amendments shall be filed electronically in the office of the Clerk of the Senate by 5:00 P.M, on Tuesday, October 21, 2025. All such amendments shall be second reading-amendments to the Senate Ways and Means new text (Senate, No. 2655), 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.