The Massachusetts House of Representatives on the floor took a series of routine procedural actions, suspending rules, adopting a resolution commending the ADC Family Network and advancing multiple bills to third reading or to be engrossed.

The action began when the panel on rules recommended adopting resolutions filed by Representative Jones of North Reading commending the ADC Family Network and recognizing Oct. 23, 2025, as a “DC deficiency awareness day.” The House voted to suspend the rules to consider the resolution and then voted to adopt it.

House members also approved an order, filed by Representatives Vargas of Haverhill and Hong of Lowell, extending until Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, the time within which the Committee on Community Development and Small Businesses is authorized to report on current House documents associated with House Order No. 4595. The House suspended the rules and adopted the order.

On a series of scheduling and third-reading procedural motions, the House’s steering, policy and scheduling committee reported multiple bills as ready for further consideration. The chamber voted to order the following bills to third reading or to pass them to be engrossed: House No. 1194 (cleanup of accidental home heating oil spills), House No. 2280 (common-sense permitting reforms for businesses and landowners), House No. 2644 (relative to fire protection), House No. 2646 (pertaining to public fire safety and professionalism), House No. 1301 (primary insurance), House No. 3896 (recall elections in the town of Berlin), House No. 3901 (exempting the position of assistant fire chief in the town referenced in the bill from civil service law), House No. 4212 (authorizing the town of Lancaster to dissolve its [commission referenced in the bill]), House No. 4347 (relative to Williamstown Library trustees) and House No. 4380 (amending the Agawam charter). For each listed bill the House voice-voted “aye” and the chair announced the ayes had it; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded on the transcript.

Procedural motions to suspend House Rule 7A and other suspension motions were made and adopted on multiple items to permit immediate second or third readings. The House recessed and later adjourned to meet Tuesday at 11 a.m.

Votes at a glance: All items recorded on the floor in this transcript were approved by voice vote; the transcript records chair announcements that “the ayes have it” or that “the order is adopted.” Where the transcript records a mover (for example, motions to suspend rules by members identified on the floor), those motions were agreed to by voice vote; the transcript does not provide individual yes/no vote tallies or any recorded no votes on the listed items.

The actions taken are procedural in nature: suspending rules, adopting resolutions and moving bills forward in the legislative process. No final enactments or signed laws are recorded in the transcript; the listed bills were advanced to later stages (third reading or engrossment) as noted.