Appropriations Committee: roll calls advance several bills; committee declines concurrence on therapeutic childcare grant

During the Appropriations Committee’s voting session, members recorded approvals on several bills by roll call, moved concurrence on a House measure, and voted not to concur on one therapeutic childcare grant item where the Senate and House differed on funding and allocation language.

Committee leadership described Senate Bill 26 as conforming the Davis Martinez Act to the House position; members moved amendments, adopted them, and then moved the bill as amended. The committee then recorded a roll-call approval during which members responded “aye” for the present roll-call names recorded in sequence.

Separately, members moved to concur on House Bill 1028 (recorded in the session as “House Bill 10 28”) and the motion carried on a subsequent roll call. The committee also debated House Bill 185 (referred to in the meeting as the therapeutic childcare grant bill). The chair summarized differences between the chambers: the Senate had restored a dollar amount of 3,700,000, while the House had set the amount at 1,500,000 to match the budget forecast; the Senate also removed language that would have specified how MSDE should allocate the grants. The committee ultimately moved not to concur on House Bill 185; members recorded affirmative votes for that motion.

Committee leadership announced that voting would continue the following morning at 8:45 a.m. and noted a conference-committee schedule for members at 4:00 p.m.

Votes recorded in the meeting came via roll call with individual members responding; the meeting transcript captures each roll-call response but does not supply a compact numeric tally in a single line beyond the recorded affirmative responses during those roll calls.