The House Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling on Oct. 5 reported that multiple local bills be scheduled for consideration by the House, including a bill authorizing the city of Quincy to enter a lease extension with Quarry Hills Associates Limited Partnership and a bill amending the Town Manager Act of Arlington on appointment and management of the town clerk. The committee also recommended scheduling petitions that would allow the towns of Maynard and Hudson to grant additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises. The committee report identified the Quincy bill as House No. 3897 and the Arlington bill as House No. 4135; the transcript lists the Maynard and Hudson license items as House numbers read in the record (transcript: "House number 4273" for one and "House number 40 272" for the other).

The committee report was made during the chamber's routine business and followed by procedural motions to suspend certain rules to place the bills on the calendar. The committee did not take final action to enact any of the local measures; scheduling places the bills on the House calendar for future consideration and does not itself change local law. The report as read by the committee included the following items: an act authorizing the city of Quincy to enter a lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates Limited Partnership (House No. 3897); an act amending the Town Manager Act of Arlington relative to the appointment and management of the town clerk (House No. 4135); an act authorizing the town of Maynard to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises (listed in the transcript as House No. 4273); and an act authorizing the town of Hudson to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises (listed in the transcript as "House number 40 272").

Members moved to suspend applicable House rules to advance the bills to second reading and later to third reading where noted in the record; the chamber recorded the usual voice votes with the chair saying, "the ayes have it." The scheduling vote does not include recorded individual roll-call votes in the transcript provided.

Background: Scheduling by the Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling places local and special legislation on the House calendar so that members may debate and vote on final passage at subsequent sittings. The items listed concern local approvals and municipal governance: a municipal lease extension for Quincy, a change to Arlington's town manager statute governing the town clerk, and requests from two towns for additional retail alcohol licenses.

Next steps: Each bill will be placed on the House calendar for second reading and, if advanced, to a third reading on a future day. The transcript record shows the chamber later moved a group of bills to third reading as a block, but it does not show final enactment of the individual local measures in this excerpt.

Details recorded in the House transcript were read into the record; the bill numbers for the Maynard and Hudson items are presented as they were read and recorded in the transcript and may be confirmed against the official House docket for exact bill numbers and local-approval language.