(A correction has been added to this story.)

SENATE PRESIDENT STANLEY ROSENBERG said on Thursday that he was pleased that a much larger proportion of the chamber’s bills than in recent years has been reported out of joint House-Senate committees and returned to the Senate for possible action.

The disposition of bills has been a sore spot between the branches since Rosenberg took over as Senate president last year. Senators were frustrated that their bills would get bottled up in the joint committees, which were dominated by House members, and never come up for a vote. The Senate did some saber rattling on the issue early last year, but the dispute quieted down after several months.

On Wednesday, the rules of the Legislature required most of the joint committees to process all the bills still under their control.  According to numbers provided by the Senate president’s office, about 2,000 bills originated in the Senate during this session. Of that total, 57 were granted extensions by the House and Senate so the committees could continue to review them and 91 were sent to House study, effectively killing them. The rest were returned to the Senate with either favorable reports, sent to Senate studies, or returned with an ought-not-to-pass recommendation. Those bills, regardless of their disposition at the committee level, can now be taken up by the full Senate. (A correction explaining that the 91 bills went to a House study and further clarification on the status of the returned Senate bills was made to this paragraph.)

The House clerk’s office could not provide similar numbers for the disposition of House bills. A spokesman for House Speaker Robert DeLeo could not be reached.

Rosenberg issued a statement saying the Senate’s objective this term has been to get Senate bills back to the Senate so votes can be taken on them. He said that objective was accomplished by simply enforcing joint House-Senate rules as written, usually in cooperation with the House chairs of committees.

“The Senate’s bills are now back in the Senate’s control,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “This is a much larger proportion of Senate bills returned to the control of the Senate than in many years. I am eager to work with the Senate to act on many of these bills, and to work with our colleagues in the House to move as many as possible to the governor’s desk.”