Senate non-concurs with House amendment on bill, requests conference committee; O'Connor moves

The Senate voted not to concur with a House amendment to a bill and requested a committee of conference, according to the session transcript.

Senator Patrick O'Connor moved that the Senate “non-concur” in the House amendment and ask for a committee of conference. The presiding officer said the chair would appoint Senators Cindy Creem (Norfolk and Middlesex), Joan Lovely (Essex) and Ryan Fattman (Worcester and Hampden) to the conference committee. The transcript records that the bill will be sent to the House endorsed accordingly; no roll-call tally or vote breakdown is given in the transcript.

The item appears in the transcript in the context of a proposed set of joint rules for the Senate and House and a reference to “Senate No. 18” and a House document number read aloud. The transcript does not include the full bill title, the text of the House amendment, or a roll-call vote; those details were not specified in the record provided.

A committee of conference is the formal mechanism by which the two chambers try to resolve differences between their versions of a measure; the transcript shows the Senate took the procedural step of refusing to concur and seeking that committee. The chair’s appointments and the transmission of the bill to the House are recorded as the immediate next steps in the session transcript.