House orders multiple local bills to third reading, adopts emergency preamble for Bourne easement and passes sick-leave bank bills to be engrossed

The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported that several local bills were scheduled for consideration, including measures authorizing reserved-capacity billing in the town of Norfolk (House Bill referenced), a town resident requirement for the town manager of Dalton (House No. 4210), authorization for the town of Lancaster to dissolve its Bridal Control Commission (House No. 4212), charter changes for Fairhaven, Malden and Ipswich (House Nos. 4232, 4233, 4243) and authorization for the city of Cambridge to expand options for issuing parking enforcement notices (House No. 4231). The chamber suspended Rule 7A to allow second reading of the bills and then ordered the listed bills to a third reading by voice vote. Separately, House Bill 4,364, an act authorizing the Commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to grant certain easements to the town of Bourne, was brought up for final passage with an emergency preamble requiring a separate vote; members rose for divisions and the counts returned a total of five in the affirmative and zero in the negative, and the emergency preamble was adopted. The transcript also records third-reading action on House bills establishing sick-leave banks for Paul Stavoski (House No. 4426) and Faneida Janal Patel (House No. 4427); both bills were passed to be engrossed after third reading by voice vote. The transcript records procedural motions to suspend rules (Representative Karens of Danvers moved to suspend Rule 7A) and the ordering and passage actions by voice vote; no roll-call votes on those measures were recorded in the provided transcript aside from the emergency preamble division count for the Bourne easement bill.