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Votes at a glance: additional measures the House passed Oct. 17
Summary
Alongside larger measures, the House passed several bills to be engrossed and enacted, including a conveyance of state land in Stoneham and a bond-terms bill under an emergency preamble.
The Massachusetts House on Oct. 17 moved several additional bills forward with brief consideration on the floor.
- Conveyance in Stoneham (House 46-43): The House Committee on Ways and Means recommended passage with an amendment substituting a bill with the same title. The House suspended rules for second reading and adopted the committee amendment; the bill was passed to be engrossed.
- Terms of certain Commonwealth bonds (House 44-13): Read on the floor under an emergency preamble and carried divisions on the preamble vote; the emergency preamble was adopted and the bill passed.
- A number of smaller local acts and payments (multiple calendar items and house bills cited on the calendar) were passed to be enacted on voice votes. The clerk and chair announced many calendar items as “passed” or “held” during routine consideration.
These items were recorded on the House floor with routine voice or chair calls and did not produce extended debate on the floor during the session. The Stoneham conveyance and the bond-terms bill were specifically announced as passed to be engrossed or enacted by the chair.
