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House suspends Joint Rule 12 to refer sick-leave bank petitions and other measures to committees
Summary
The House concurred with a Senate petition and the chamber later suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer petitions — including requests to establish sick-leave banks and a petition to rescind past calls for a federal constitutional convention — to the appropriate committees.
The House concurred with a Senate petition to establish a sick-leave bank for Emily Kulik and later, acting on reports from the Committee on Rules and concurrent committee action, suspended Joint Rule 12 to allow expedited consideration of multiple petitions. The clerk reported a petition from Senator-filed petitioners Peter J. Durant and Donald Arberthian Jr. to establish a sick-leave bank for Emily Kulik and noted it was referred to the Committee on Public Service under suspension of Joint Rule 12; the House concurred by voice vote. The Committee on Rules, acting concurrently with its counterpart, reported additional petitions and recommended suspension of Joint Rule 12 so those petitions could be referred: a petition from Lisa Field to establish a sick-leave bank for Aidan Daniels (referred to Public Service) and a petition from Lindsay and Sabadosa to rescind previous calls for a federal constitutional convention (referred to the Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs). Representative Wong of Saugus moved to suspend the rules; the chamber approved the suspension by voice vote and the transcript records that Joint Rule 12 was suspended. The transcript records no recorded roll-call on these procedural motions.
