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House suspends joint rule, refers Senate petitions to Financial Services committee and advances several bills to third reading or enactment

September 08, 2025 | 2025 Legislature MA, Massachusetts


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House suspends joint rule, refers Senate petitions to Financial Services committee and advances several bills to third reading or enactment
The House suspended joint rule 12 to take up petitions sent from the Senate and referred them to the committee on financial services, and it moved forward multiple bills on its calendar.

The petitions from the Senate included a petition by Senator Patrick M. O'Connor asking for legislation to provide insurance coverage for medically necessary treatment of port-wine stains and a petition by Senator Michael F. Rush requesting legislation to require health-insurance coverage for scalp-cooling systems. The committee on rules recommended suspension of joint rule 12 to consider these petitions, the House concurred and the petitions were referred to the committee on financial services. The transcript records concurrence by voice vote.

Separately, the committee on steering, policy and scheduling recommended that a package of House bills be scheduled for consideration, including bills on student mental health (House No. 2221), a disability pension administered by the Springfield Retirement Board for an individual named Michael Rodricks (House No. 2939), designation of September as PCOS awareness month (House No. 3392), roadway safety (House No. 3812), and amending the charter of the town of Hopkinton to add appointment powers for the board of library trustees (House No. 4292). The House suspended rule 7A to take up second readings, and the bills were ordered to third reading as reported.

The House also scheduled an act establishing an economic development special revenue account for the town of Hopkinton (House No. 4293) and ordered that bill through third reading after suspension of rule 7A.

On the bills requiring separate action, the House recorded passage steps for a measure to dissolve the Whatley Water District (House No. 2250 as referenced in the transcript) and for a bill to establish a sick leave bank for an employee of the Department of State Police (House No. 4323; employee name recorded in the transcript as Alexandra Schwartz/Swartz). For the sick leave bank measure the House proceeded under the emergency preamble and recorded division vote counts by house division in the transcript; the emergency preamble was adopted. The transcript records that the bill establishing the sick leave bank was passed to be enacted; the transcript later records a bill being passed to be enacted and a motion that the House stand adjourned.

The transcript does not include full bill texts, the detailed committee reports that explain policy changes, nor full roll-call votes for all measures; where division counts are recorded, those counts are included in the transcript. The actions recorded are procedural advances (scheduling, ordering to third reading, engrossing and enacting) rather than the adoption of broad policy changes on the floor during this session.

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