Word: bill
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...vote had passed, the bill would have been moved immediately to the Senate floor where it would be debated and voted on, rather than being delayed further in a committee...
...vote is a definite message to Senate leaders that they must enforce the will of the majority of the Senate, and that is to decide on this matter," said State Sen. Royal L. Bolling's (D-Boston) Legislative Aide Anthony S. Rust. Bolling last week proposed to discharge the bill from the Third Reading Committee during the last formal Senate session, Rust said...
State senators voted to move the bill to the Third Reading Committee, one of the final steps to passing a proposed bill, two weeks ago by a vote of 20 to 15, and the bill has been in the committee since...
...motion did not receive the two-thirds vote necessary for discharging and Bolling said he intends to call for the bill's discharge at every formal session of the Senate this year, Rust said...
Bolling has already filed for the bill to be heard in the 1988 legislative calendar, in case it does not meet the 1987 deadline, his aide said...