House moves multiple bills to third reading or final passage; several sick-leave banks enacted or passed to engross
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Summary
The House scheduled several bills for third reading, ordered multiple bills to be engrossed, and enacted or passed final-passage measures including several sick leave banks, local authorizations, and licensing changes. An emergency-preamble amendment was adopted on at least one bill.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives scheduled multiple bills for further consideration and moved several measures to final passage or engrossing during the session.
The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling recommended that bills including House Bill 3115 (tax abatement for permanently disabled veterans), House Bill 3188 (line-of-duty death benefits for firefighters), House Bill 3358 (establishing Building Trades Recovery Week), and House Bill 4178 (authorizing Adam T. Genachowski to take a police civil service exam notwithstanding the maximum age requirement) be scheduled for consideration by the House; the House ordered those bills to a third reading by voice vote.
Several bills were advanced to final passage or to be engrossed. House 4514 (an act establishing a sick leave bank for Candy J. Pike, Department of Developmental Services) was prepared for final passage; divisions were recorded in the roll call and an emergency preamble was adopted. The House also passed to be enacted multiple bills presented for final passage, including a special fund for Festival of Hills receipts (House 2251), property lease authority for Watertown (House 4205) and other local authorizations.
Committee reports and third-reading actions included concurrence with Senate amendments to a bill authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide services to a parcel in Sharon; the House concurred. Senate 2528 (authorizing the town of Marblehead to establish parking fines) was ordered to be engrossed. House 4286 (authorizing Somerset to grant an additional license for sale of wine and malt beverages for on-premises consumption) was passed to be engrossed. House 4587 (sick leave bank for David A. Russell, Department of Correction) was passed to be engrossed.
House 40224 (sick leave bank for Jean McCarron, Registry of Motor Vehicles) was amended by inserting an emergency preamble at the request of Representative Walsh of Peabody; the amendment was adopted and the bill passed to be engrossed as amended.
No fiscal details or text of the substantive bills were read into the record in full during this session; the actions recorded are scheduling, committee concurrence, engrossing, and final-passage votes.
