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House suspends rules, schedules age‑waiver bills for Boston police applicants and passes several local measures
Summary
In a brief session the Massachusetts House suspended its rules to extend committee deadlines, scheduled age‑waiver bills for two Boston police applicants for further consideration, concurred in amendments to a Scituate licensing bill, enacted several local government changes and adjourned to meet Monday at 11 a.m.
The Massachusetts House carried several routine procedural items, scheduled two local personnel waiver bills for further consideration and passed multiple local-government measures before adjourning.
A committee order to extend the time for the Committee on Education to report on certain House documents was read and adopted after the House suspended its rules. The Presiding Officer put the motions to a voice vote, repeatedly announcing, "The ayes have it," as the measures passed by voice vote.
The House scheduling report directed that two bills asking the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for specific applicants — identified in the record as Rodney Alcindor (House number 4254) and Jonathan Telford (House number 4255) — be placed for…
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