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Steering committee schedules bills on storage, planning boards, special education reserves and sick leave banks
Summary
The Committee on Steering and Policy reported that several bills will be scheduled for House consideration, including measures on self-storage law clarification, local options for associate planning board members, special education reserve funds, and multiple sick leave bank bills.
The Committee on Steering and Policy reported to the Massachusetts House of Representatives that a set of bills will be scheduled for consideration, including measures to clarify self-storage consumer laws, allow local options for associate planning board members, establish special education reserve funds, create a regional school assessment reserve fund, and create or amend sick leave banks for specific state employees.
Why it matters: Scheduling by the steering committee advances these measures toward committee hearings and floor consideration; several affect municipal governance, school finance mechanisms, and employee leave policies.
The committee recommended scheduling the following matters for consideration by the House (as read on the floor): an act relative to clarifying self-storage laws for consumers (House No. 340); an act providing a local option for associate members of planning boards (House No. 2,300); an act relative to special education reserve funds (House No. 2303); an act establishing a regional school assessment reserve fund (House No. 2304); an act relative to regional commissions on the status of women (House No. 2313); an act relative to municipal publication of zoning bylaw procedures (House No. 2315); and multiple bills establishing sick leave banks for named employees (House Nos. 4322–4324 for Carlos Borges, Alexander Schwartz of the Department of State Police, and Stephanie Bramate Miller of the Appellate Tax Board, respectively).
Members approved suspension of Rule 7A to allow these second readings, and the bills were ordered to third reading where indicated. The transcript records the committee report and the motions to suspend rules and proceed; it does not record committee hearings, fiscal notes, or final votes on the substantive measures in this session.
Next steps: Scheduling places the bills on the House docket; committees and sponsors determine whether hearings, amendments or fiscal analyses follow.
