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House adopts orders extending committee reporting deadlines for two bills
Summary
The Massachusetts House adopted orders extending the time for two committees to report on separate House documents: House 4376 was extended to Dec. 3, 2025, and House 4393 was extended to March 18, 2026, following motions to suspend the rules and voice votes.
The Massachusetts House on a voice vote adopted orders extending committee reporting deadlines for two pending House documents.
The House adopted an order extending until Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, the time within which the committee on the judiciary is authorized to report on House No. 4376. The House later adopted an order extending until Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the time within which the committee on consumer protection and professional licensure is authorized to report on House No. 4393.
Both orders were presented as committee-on-rules reports recommending adoption. For the first order, a member identified in the transcript as "Mister Worrall of Boston" moved suspension of the rules; the presiding officer called the voice vote and declared, "The ayes have it." For the second order, the report was read and a suspension motion was again moved; the presiding officer similarly announced the order adopted by voice vote.
Why it matters: extending reporting deadlines gives the referenced committees more time to consider the bills before returning recommendations to the full House.
Details: The transcript presents the committee reports as follows: the committee on rules reported that the order filed by "Mister Dave Stonem" relative to House No. 4376 "ought to be adopted." Later, the committee on rules reported that the order filed by "Mister Chan of Quincy" relative to House No. 4393 "ought to be adopted." Each recommendation was followed by a motion to suspend the rules and a voice vote adopting the order.
Formal actions: Both adoptions were recorded as voice votes with the presiding officer announcing "The ayes have it." No roll-call tallies or individual recorded votes appear in the transcript.
Limits of authority and next steps: The orders extend the statutory/reporting deadlines for the named committees to report back to the House; the transcript does not indicate any substantive changes to the bills themselves, nor does it record subsequent committee actions within this excerpt.
Ending: The extensions were procedural and were adopted by voice vote; no amendments or further debate on the underlying bills are recorded in the provided transcript excerpt.
