The Massachusetts House of Representatives approved a series of procedural motions and final-passage items during a floor session recorded in the transcript. Members suspended rules, ordered numerous bills to third reading and passed several local and administrative measures.

The most substantive roll-call divisions occurred on House 4249, an act relative to vital statistics, and House 3388, an act designating Sept. 22 as Military Service Members and Veterans Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day. For House 4249 the presiding officer recorded division tallies of first division 1, second division 3, third division 0 and fourth division 0; opposing divisions were recorded as zeros and the bill was ordered "passed to be reenacted." For House 3388 the divisions were recorded as first division 1, second division 3, third division 1 and fourth division 0, with opposing divisions zeros; the record shows five affirmative votes and none negative.

Other bills listed by title were advanced without extended debate. The emergency preamble was adopted before final-passage consideration of several items, including House 1590, an act establishing a sick leave bank for Eric J. Izwek (employee of the judicial/clerical staff of the Commonwealth); and House 1024, an act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a parcel in the town of Sharon. Those measures were taken and reported "passed to be enacted" following voice votes.

The chamber also recorded enactment votes or engrossment actions on a range of local/administrative bills: authorization for alternate members on the conservation commission in a named town (bill listed as "House 23, Senate 23" in the record), Senate 1830 authorizing the town of Brookfield to continue employment of Herbert A. Chaffee II (engrossed by voice vote), House 4109 relocating certain harbor lines in New Bedford Harbor (engrossed), and House 4524 changing the name of the Board of Selectmen in Williamsburg to "Select Board" (engrossed after motion by Christiano). The record lists voice votes and the presiding officer announcing that "the ayes have it" on these items.

Procedural motions that affected the floor schedule were also adopted. The chamber voted to suspend joint rule 12 for referral of specified petitions and repeatedly suspended rule 7A to permit second readings and scheduling under the procedural rules. The clerk and the steering committee read a long list of bills the committee recommended for scheduling; several of those bills carried the annotation "local approval received." The House ordered groups of bills for third reading by voice vote.

The session concluded with a brief recess and an adjournment order. Clerk-read orders adjourned the House "to meet Wednesday next at 11:00 a.m.;" the chamber voted and the motion to adjourn, moved by Mister Soder, carried.

Details of recorded motions and votes appear in the official House Journal and the committee reports referenced on the floor.