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House appoints conference committee after rejecting Senate amendment to FY2025 supplemental appropriations bill
Summary
The Massachusetts House rejected concurrence with a Senate amendment to a fiscal 2025 supplemental appropriations bill, appointed a committee of conference and later passed an engrossed version of the bill with its emergency preamble adopted.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives rejected concurrence with a Senate amendment to a supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal 2025, appointed a committee of conference and later passed an engrossed version of the bill during a floor session.
The action matters because a conference committee will reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill that supplements existing appropriations; its decisions determine how state agencies and projects receive funds for fiscal 2025.
The session record shows a Senate-transmitted bill identified on the floor as House bill 4010 (later described as House 4100 when engrossed) arrived from the Senate with an amendment replacing all text after the enacting clause with language contained in a Senate document referenced on the floor. The House vote on concurrence failed; the House then voted to appoint a committee of conference. The chair named three House appointees: Mr. Michael Witz of Boston, Ms. Ferranti of Gloucester and Mr. Smola of Warren.
Later in the same session the House took separate final-action steps on the engrossed bill. The House adopted the emergency preamble (the record shows three members voting in the affirmative by division counts reported on the floor) and then passed the engrossed bill to be enacted. The clerk read an order setting the next meeting for Monday at 11 a.m., and the House adjourned.
The transcript does not include the full text of the conflicting Senate amendment, dollar totals for the supplemental appropriations, nor the Senate conferees. Those details were not specified on the floor record provided.
A committee of conference typically meets with appointed Senate conferees to negotiate a single bill text for both branches to consider; the House record indicates only the appointment of House conferees and the procedural passage of the engrossed bill, not the outcomes of any conference committee meetings.
