Massachusetts Senate Engrosses Municipal Bills, Adjourns in Memory of East Boston Matriarch

BOSTON — March 30, 2026 — Massachusetts Senate clears eleven bills in a brief March 30 session and adjourns in memory of East Boston community leader Teresa Beza. The chamber passed to enactment three individual Boston Police Department age-waiver acts for Pierre Charles Darius, Dumi Pemera, and Officer Ryan Pazue, then engrossed a cluster of Haverhill public safety age-waiver bills covering three firefighter candidates and one police candidate, as well as measures authorizing a special town meeting in Andover, renaming Williamsburg's Board of Selectmen to Select Board, and making the Chicopee city charter gender neutral. The Senate also adopted a Rules Committee order extending the Judiciary Committee's reporting deadline to June 30, 2026, with Committee Chair Lydia Edwards promising publicly that the panel would finish "well before" that date. The session closed with Senator Edwards delivering a personal tribute to Teresa Beza, immigrant, seamstress, and mother of state Representative Carlo Beza of East Boston, who died March 26 surrounded by family.