House adopts order for Jan. 16 joint convention to receive governor’s communication

The House adopted an order from the Senate to hold a joint convention at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, to receive a communication from Governor Maura T. Healey.

The order matters because a joint convention formally brings both legislative branches together to hear communications from the governor; the House recorded a sequence of procedural votes to enact the order and conclude its session.

Mister Juanasagas, a member of the House, moved to suspend the rules before consideration of the Senate order; the motion passed by voice vote. Mister Mariano Quincy, a member of the House, offered the order from the clerk and the House subsequently voted to adopt it. The text of the adopted order directs that a convention of the two branches be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, "for the purpose of receiving such communication as the governor, Maura T. Healey, may be pleased to make to them relating to the concerns of the Commonwealth," as recorded in the session.

The House also adopted an order that, when the House adjourned that day, it would reconvene "Thursday next at 11 a.m." Later in the session, Mister Foster Robin, a member of the House, moved that the House stand adjourned; that motion passed and the House stood adjourned to meet Thursday next at 11 a.m. in an informal session. All roll-call tallies were recorded as voice votes in the transcript and are noted as such in the meeting record.

No further substantive debate or bill-level amendments were recorded on the joint convention order in the transcript. The session closed after the adjournment motion was carried.