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Mass. House passes several local bills, including sick leave bank for RMV employee
Summary
The Massachusetts House voted to pass multiple engrossed bills to be enacted — including House 4,624 establishing a sick leave bank for a Registry of Motor Vehicles employee — and concurred with Senate amendments to a Lynn charter revision.
The Massachusetts House completed floor action on several engrossed bills and approved final passage for measures affecting municipalities and a personnel matter at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
An engrossed bill, House 4,624, "an act establishing a sick leave bank for Jean McCarran, an employee of the Registry of Motor Vehicles," was called for final passage. Because the bill included an emergency preamble, the House held a separate recorded division on the preamble: monitors reported First division 0, Second division 2, Third division 0, Fourth division 2, yielding four votes in the affirmative and zero in the negative; the House adopted the emergency preamble. Later in the session the House voted the engrossed bill passed to be enacted.
The House also passed to be enacted House 2,335 (extending residency requirements for members of the regular police and fire departments and the fire alarm and wires division of the city of Newton), House 4154 (authorizing certain investments for the Richmond Free Public Library), and House 4168 (authorizing the town of Acton to increase residency limits for members of its police and fire departments). The votes on those bills were taken by voice and the Speaker announced the ayes had it.
The committee on bills in the third reading reported that Senate amendments to House Bill 4,149, revising the charter of the city of Lynn, were correctly drawn; the House voted to concur with the Senate amendments.
House 4,379 (amending the charter of the city of Greenfield) and House 4,589 (authorizing the town of Ludlow to pay a certain unpaid bill) were each read a third time and passed to be engrossed on voice votes recorded in the transcript.
These actions were recorded as routine floor business in the transcript; specific roll-call vote-by-name records are present only for the emergency preamble for House 4,624.
