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Amendment #137 (Velis) rejected -see Roll Call #225 (Yeas 16 to Nays 24)

S2800  ·  Senate roll call No. 225  ·  2020-07-14 00:34  ·  191st General Court (2019 to 2020)
16 yeas, 24 nays, 0 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 137, moved by John C. Velis  ·  Rejected

Special Commission to Study Qualified Immunity

Messrs. Velis and Moore, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Brady, Timilty, Pacheco, Tarr, Tran, Feeney, Keenan and Fattman move to amend the bill by striking section 10, lines 409-433, and replacing it with the following, "A special Commission will be convened to study qualified immunity, consisting of four (4) legal experts in the relevant areas of qualified immunity and its impacts on public safety appointed by the Governor, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House, the Chairs of the Ways and Means Committees, and the House and Senate minority leaders, and a designee of the Supreme Judicial Court is hereby created. The Commission shall study the issues of qualified immunity and file a report with th…

yea · 16

nay · 24

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.