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Mass. House advances and adopts multiple bills, adopts amendment to convey Wellesley parcel and refers consumer-protection bill to Ways and Means
Summary
The Massachusetts House suspended rules, ordered bills to third reading, passed multiple bills to be engrossed, concurred with a Senate amendment on House 4,363 (land conveyance in Wellesley), adopted an amendment to House 4717 and referred House 1110 (consumer protection/subprime loans) to the Committee on Ways and Means.
The Massachusetts House conducted a series of procedural and substantive actions including suspending rules, ordering bills for third reading, and passing multiple measures to be engrossed.
The chamber adopted committee recommendations and voice votes were used frequently. The Committee on Bills in the Third Reading reported that the Senate amendment to House 4,363 — authorizing the Commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a parcel of land in the Town of Wellesley — was correctly drawn; the House concurred. The clerk announced the concurrence and the House voted to concur by voice.
Several bills were passed to be engrossed after third reading, including an act amending the charter of the town of Provincetown (House 4175) and the city of Greenfield (House 4379). The House also passed to be engrossed an act relative to the Board of Water Commissioners of the Dalton Fire District (House 4721) and an act authorizing the town of Milton to grant on-premises alcoholic beverage licenses (House 4813). During the third reading of House 4717 (annual town meeting for Orange), a member offered and the House adopted an amendment; the bill was then passed to be engrossed as amended.
On House 1110, described in the record as an act to protect consumers relating to subprime loans, the committee recommended discharge from further consideration in the third reading and an amendment was adopted; Mister Walsh of Peabody then moved and the House referred the bill to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Routine scheduling actions were also taken: the Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling reported bills recommended for consideration (including personnel-exception and sick-leave bank bills), the House ordered multiple bills to third reading, and the session concluded with a special adjournment in memory of former Representative Salvatore Cimino and an order that the House adjourn to meet Tuesday next at 11:00 a.m.
The transcript records voice votes with the repeated phrasing "All those in favor say aye" and "The ayes have it." It does not include roll-call tallies or individual recorded votes for the listed measures.
