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House advances multiple bills to engrossment; adopts emergency preambles for some measures
Summary
On third reading the House passed a series of local-charter and policy bills to be engrossed and adopted emergency preambles for certain measures, including an FY2025 supplemental appropriation and a bill establishing the 2026 state primary date.
The Massachusetts House advanced several bills on third reading and passed them to be engrossed, and in some cases adopted amendments and emergency preambles.
On third reading the chamber passed local-charter and other bills — including measures relative to the Board of Water Commissioners of the Catuit Fire District, the charter of the towns of Acushnet and Provincetown, membership changes to the prim board, Williamstown Library Trustees, and a bill relating to rodeos — by voice votes; the clerk recorded that those bills were passed to be engrossed.
The House also considered and passed what the floor identified as final passage measures related to state appropriations and election scheduling. The transcript shows House 45 30, identified as “an act making appropriations for fiscal year 2025 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and certain other activities and projects,” and House 45 31, an act establishing the 2026 state primary election day. On both measures the presiding officer stated that, under the constitution, a separate vote was required for the emergency preamble; the record shows divisions and reports that two members were recorded in the affirmative for the emergency preambles, after which the presiding officer stated the emergency preambles were adopted and the bills were passed as prepared.
On House bill 33 88, designating veteran suicide awareness and remembrance day, Representative Walsh of Peabody offered an amendment to insert an emergency preamble; the amendment was adopted and the bill was passed to be engrossed as amended.
Why it matters: appropriation bills and procedural emergency preambles change how and when laws take effect; election-date legislation determines scheduling for statewide primary administration.
The transcript records voice votes and occasional division counts for emergency preambles but does not include comprehensive roll-call tallies for the third-reading passage of the many local-charter bills listed on the floor. After these actions the House recessed and later adjourned until the next informal session at 11 a.m. Monday, as ordered on the floor.
