# Massachusetts S 14: Proposed Senate Rules for the 2025-2026 Legislative Session

Massachusetts S 14, Proposed Senate Rules for the 2025-2026 Legislative Session, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) Senate bill sponsored by Temporary Senate Committee on Rules; status passed senate, last action 2025-02-13 (Reprinted as amended, see S19) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 14
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: Proposed Senate Rules for the 2025-2026 Legislative Session
- Status: passed senate
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-02-06
- Last action: 2025-02-13, Reprinted as amended, see S19
- Sponsor: Temporary Senate Committee on Rules
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Rules
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 1 (7 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Temporary Senate Committee on Rules

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-02-06 | committee | Committee Committee Report: Ought to be accepted | pass | 7 | 0 | 2 |

## Actions (42)

- 2025-02-13: Reprinted as amended, see S19 (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #14 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #22 (Friedman) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #2 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #33 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #27 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #25 (Fattman) rejected -see Roll Call #23 (Yeas 6 to Nays 32) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #21 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #19 (Fattman) rejected -see Roll Call #22 (Yeas 6 to Nays 31) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #16 (Rausch) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #13 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #10 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #21 (Yeas 6 to Nays 32) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #7 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #6 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #5 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #3 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #20 (Yeas 5 to Nays 33) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #39 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #38 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #37 (Rausch) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #36 (Keenan) rejected -see Roll Call #19 (Yeas 6 to Nays 31) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #35 (Keenan) rejected -see Roll Call #18 (Yeas 5 to Nays 32) (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #34 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #32 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #31 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #30 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #29 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #28 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #26 (Keenan) laid aside as duplicative (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #24 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #23 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #20 (Fattman) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #18 (Jehlen) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #17 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #15 (Rausch) adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #12 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #9 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #8 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #4 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-13: Amendment #1 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2025-02-06: Placed in the Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 12, 2025 (Senate)
- 2025-02-06: Order relative to subject matter adopted (Senate)
- 2025-02-06: Reported from the Temporary Committee on Rules (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S14.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S14.pdf)

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- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194)
- [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194)
- [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-S14-194 (as of 2026-11-01).