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House schedules bills for consideration and passes multiple measures to be engrossed, including Natick charter amendment and PCOS awareness month
Summary
The House steering committee recommended scheduling several bills for consideration; the House ordered a slate of bills to a third reading and passed several measures to be engrossed, including amendments to a PCOS awareness month bill.
The Massachusetts House's Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling recommended a slate of bills for floor consideration and the chamber moved several measures forward in the legislative process, ordering them to third reading and passing multiple bills to be engrossed.
On the scheduling roster, the committee recommended consideration of House Bill 804, an act relative to gender‑neutral language in election laws; several individual exceptions to civil‑service maximum age requirements for persons seeking firefighter and police examinations (including House Nos. 29285, 29286, 29287, 29288 as read on the floor); a measure related to improved headlight safety (House No. 3778); an exemption of the assistant fire chief position in the town of Natick from civil‑service law (House No. 3901); and a bill establishing a sick leave bank (House No. 4478). The committee's recommendations were announced on the floor and received local approvals where noted.
The House also handled third‑reading business. The chamber recorded that House Bill 3898, an amendment to the town of Natick home rule charter, was released by the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading and was passed to be engrossed after the chair called for the question. Similarly, House Bill 4030 (organization and governance of the town of Rochester) and House Bill 4136 (stabilization funds in the town of Leister) were presented and passed to be engrossed by voice vote. House Bill 3392, designating September as PCOS Awareness Month, was amended on the floor when Representative Walsh of Peabody moved to insert an emergency preamble; the amendment was adopted by voice vote and the bill as amended was passed to be engrossed.
Separately, the House concurred with a petition from the Senate related to modernizing permitting for the transportation of certain loads (a petition from Senator Edward J. Kennedy), agreeing by voice vote to the Senate's endorsement and referring the matter as provided in the transmittal.
Floor action on these items occurred by voice vote; the transcript records the chair announcing that 'the ayes have it' when the measures passed to be engrossed. There were no recorded roll‑call tallies or extended floor debates on the bills listed in the session transcript.
