The House of Representatives concurred with a Senate proposal of amendment to Senate Bill 122 — an act relating to economic and workforce development — removing sections related to a baby bonds pilot program and voted to message the bill to the Senate and deliver it to the governor.

The action followed a motion to suspend the rules and take up the Senate proposal of amendment for immediate consideration. The motions to take up the amendment, to concur with the Senate, and to message the House’s action to the Senate and to deliver the bill to the governor were approved by voice votes in which “the ayes appear to have it.”

Explaining the Senate amendment, the member from Burlington said, “The Senate proposal of amendment to s to our proposal of amendment is to remove sections 89 and 10. Those are the sections related to the baby bonds pilot program. The senators felt that these sections needed more consideration and more work and recommended that we take that up next year. So we the your your, your house commerce and economic development committee met, considered this amendment, and voted, in a straw poll favorably to accept their amendment 9 0 2.”

Members were told the first assistant clerk emailed the further proposal of amendment to members at 12:19, the amendment is posted on the House overview webpage, and paper copies were available at the main table.

Formally, the House recorded concurrence in the Senate proposal of amendment to the House proposal of amendment and then suspended rules to message that action to the Senate forthwith and to deliver the bill to the governor forthwith.

No changes to other substantive sections of S.122 were discussed on the floor during the recorded remarks. After completing the actions on S.122, the House recessed and was scheduled to reconvene at 2:30 p.m., when members expected one to three bills to be ready for consideration.