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Massachusetts House advances multiple bills, appoints conference committee after rejecting concurrence on FY2025 appropriation

October 27, 2025 | 2025 Legislature MA, Massachusetts


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Massachusetts House advances multiple bills, appoints conference committee after rejecting concurrence on FY2025 appropriation
The Massachusetts House of Representatives advanced a bundle of bills and procedural orders and appointed a conference committee after declining to concur with a Senate amendment to a fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations measure.

The House adopted an order extending until Wednesday, 12/03/2025, the time for the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to report on House No. 4654, as reported by the Committee on Rules. The House also approved multiple suspensions of rules to take up and advance bills for consideration.

On a fiscal-year appropriation bill that arrived from the Senate with an instruction to be engrossed “in concurrence with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in Senate document number 2670,” the House voted that it did not concur with the Senate amendment. The House then moved to appoint a conference committee; the chair announced the members as Mr. Mikeowitz of Boston, Mr. Varante of Gloucester and Mr. Smola of Warren.

The House acted on several locally focused and routine measures:
- A bill to designate the tennis court in Weider Park in the Roslindale section of the city of Boston as the Kim O’Connell Tennis Courts was scheduled and advanced to third reading.
- A set of local and safety-related bills (listed in the session as House numbers 3808, 3810 and 3814 and House number 4170 regarding the Ward 7 councillor in Marlborough) were reported for scheduling and advanced toward third reading.
- An act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a parcel in the town of Sharon required a separate division vote under the Constitution; the Clerk recorded division counts across four divisions (first: 1; second: 3; third: 1; fourth: 0) and reported that five members voted in the affirmative and none in the negative; the emergency preamble was adopted and the bill was passed to be enacted.
- A bill exempting the assistant fire chief position in the town of Natick from civil service passed to be enacted.
- Other bills released by committee and taken up on third reading included House numbers 3897 (Quincy lease extension to Quarry Hills Associates Limited Partnership), 4381 (Norwood moderator term), and additional municipal matters; most were passed to be engrossed or enacted by voice votes.

The House also reported on a petition by Frank A. Moran and the Committee on Rules recommended suspension of Joint Rule 12 to refer a measure establishing a commission on steroid addiction and steroid withdrawal to the Committee on Public Health; the House suspended Joint Rule 12 and accepted the committee report.

The session concluded with the House adopting an order that it adjourn to meet Wednesday next at 11 a.m.; a Democratic caucus was announced for noon in Room A1.

Because the day's actions were largely procedural and involved numerous bills advanced by voice or brief roll-call divisions, this summary lists each formally recorded action and the outcomes as stated in the transcript. Where the transcript provided division or roll-call counts, those counts are reported; where votes were taken by voice or were not numerically recorded in the transcript, the tally is not specified.

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