BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)--Governor Maura Healey on Friday dispensed with the final 15 bills left on her desk in December by the last Legislature, approving laws dealing with school bus safety, dental hygienists, and naming a wildlife reserve after a longtime conservationist. The 122 laws Healey approved during the week and a half between New Year's Eve and Jan. 10 represent nearly 18 percent of the total 496 laws signed over the course of the 2023-2024 term. She signed every bill that reached her at the close of December, her office said. Deadline approaches for Massachusetts residents to enroll in health insurance Under the bus bill (H 4940), cities and towns will be allowed to install monitoring devices on school buses to catch nearby vehicles that fail to stop for a stopped school bus.  Under another measure (H 4842), certain dental hygienists who have practiced for at least five years in another country will be able to achieve licensure in Massachusetts. The Rumney Marsh Reservation, a 600-acre salt marsh in Revere and Saugus managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, will be named in honor of the late Joseph James of Revere under a bill (H 913) enacted around midnight on Dec. 30 and signed by the governor on Friday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service called Rumney Marsh "one of the most biologically significant estuaries in Massachusetts north of Boston." Signage will now mark it as the "Joseph T. James Area of Critical Environmental Concern." James was a conservationist who served on the Revere Conservation Commission, was president of the Friends of Rumney Marsh, and started the city's recycling program. He was the father of recently-retired House Clerk Steven James. Healey cleared her desk a day ahead of her Saturday deadline to act on some bills. Under the Constitution, governors have a 10-day window to review bills before deciding whether, or how, to act upon them. The way that the calendar shook out at the end of December, Healey's deadline wound up landing farther away than usual from the Legislature's action. For the school bus, dental hygienist, and Joseph James bills, for example, the Senate voted to enact them Dec. 30 but Healey had until Saturday, Jan. 11 to act on them. That's because physically delivering a bill to the governor's office -- laying it before the governor, in parliamentary parlance -- starts the counting of the clock. The day after the paper copy is delivered marks Day 1 of the 10-day countdown, according to the Senate clerk's office. After the branches adjourned after 1 a.m. on Dec. 31, the paperwork for those bills wasn't processed and sent down the hall to Healey until Jan. 1. Healey Press Secretary Karissa Hand told the News Service over the weekend that the governor had affixed her signature to the final pack of 15 bills, "and now there are zero bills on the Governor's desk." The bundle also included a provision dealing with Federal Home Loan Bank loans (H 4905) and local bills affecting Gardner, Holliston, Bellingham, Williamstown, Boston, Saugus, Haverhill, Paxton, and Maynard.