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House declines to concur on FY2026 amendment, reappoints conference committee; approves FY2025 supplemental
Summary
The Massachusetts House did not concur with a Senate amendment to a FY2026 appropriation bill and reappointed a conference committee; the chamber separately adopted and passed a FY2025 supplemental appropriations bill (Senate No. 2521) with its emergency preamble.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives on the floor declined to concur with a Senate amendment to a House fiscal 2026 appropriation bill (House No. 4001) and reappointed a conference committee to resolve differences. The chamber separately adopted and passed to be enacted a Senate fiscal 2025 supplemental appropriations bill (Senate No. 2521), including adoption of the emergency preamble.
The House recorded a voice vote declining to concur with the amendment to House No. 4001; the presiding officer then moved to reappoint a conference committee. The chair announced appointees to the conference committee as "Mister Mikowitz, Mister Ferrante, and Mister Smola" according to the House proceedings. The committee will meet to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the FY2026 measure.
Separately, the House took up Senate No. 2521, a supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal 2025. The bill was read, ordered through second and third readings under suspension of the rules, and the House adopted the bill's emergency preamble following division calls. The presiding officer stated the bill "is passed to be enacted." The record shows division tallies during the emergency preamble roll call that the presiding officer summarized as resulting in adoption.
The House concluded its session by adopting an order that it stand adjourned to meet Monday next at 11 a.m.
Details in the House record indicate the matters were advanced through routine procedural steps (suspension of rules, second and third readings) and that the conference committee was reappointed where the two chambers did not concur. No final enacted text or fiscal totals beyond the bill numbers were included in the floor statements.
