Committee on Rules recommends petitions be fast‑tracked to education and environment committees
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Summary
The Committee on Rules reported recommending suspension of Joint Rule 12 so petitions — including a proposal for a vocational-admissions task force and a request to name tennis courts in Roslindale — can be referred to the appropriate standing committees.
The Committee on Rules reported that it recommends suspending Joint Rule 12 to allow immediate referral of several citizen and member petitions, the clerk announced on the House floor. Among the petitions, Representatives Frank A. Moran and Adam J. Scanlon and others asked that a special task force including members of the General Court be established to review and report on vocational-admissions policies; the committee recommended referring that petition to the Committee on Education.
The committee also recommended that the Department of Conservation and Recreation be authorized to designate the tennis courts located in Weider Park in the Roslindale section of Boston as the Kim O’Connell Tennis Courts, referring that petition to the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. The committee report was read on the floor and the House later voted to suspend Joint Rule 12 to allow consideration of the petitions.
The committee report itself is a procedural recommendation and does not enact the requests; each petition must still be considered by the receiving committee.