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House suspends rules to advance referral on family self‑sufficiency bill, moves multiple local bills to engrossment
Summary
The Massachusetts House approved procedural motions to extend a committee reporting deadline, suspend joint rule 12 to send a petition on expanding the family self‑sufficiency program to the Committee on Housing, and ordered several local charter and licensing bills to third reading or to be engrossed; most actions were taken by voice vote.
The Massachusetts House on an unspecified day in August approved a series of procedural motions that extended a committee reporting deadline, suspended a joint rule to send a petition about the family self‑sufficiency program to the Committee on Housing and advanced several local charter and liquor‑license bills toward engrossment.
The actions matter because they move proposed changes — including a petition to expand eligibility for the family self‑sufficiency program — further into the legislative process and put several local charter and licensing measures on track for final consideration.
The committee on rules reported that an order filed by Representative Cabral of New Bedford and Tyler of Boston to extend the time for the committee on state administration and regulatory oversight to report on current House documents “ought to be adopted.” Mr. Donato of Medford moved to suspend the rules to consider the order;…
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