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Mass. House approves several engrossed bills, including sick-leave bank for a corrections employee
Summary
The Massachusetts House voted to pass multiple engrossed bills on Nov. 27, 2025, ordering several to third reading and enacting measures including House 4587, which establishes a sick-leave bank for Department of Correction employee David A. Russell; an emergency preamble on 4587 was adopted by division count.
The Massachusetts House on Nov. 27, 2025, approved a group of engrossed bills and moved several others forward in the legislative process while adopting procedural suspensions requested by committees and members.
House 4587, an act establishing a sick-leave bank for David A. Russell, an employee of the Department of Correction, was presented for final passage. Under the Constitution the chamber took a separate vote on the bill’s emergency preamble; division counts were returned (First division 0, Second division 2, Third division 0, Fourth division 1), yielding three votes in the affirmative and none in the negative, and the emergency preamble was adopted. Later the bill was put to a final vote and the ayes carried; the bill was passed to be enacted.
The House also passed a set of engrossed bills to be enacted by voice vote. Those included House 4149, revising the charter of the city of Lynn; House 4286, authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises; and House 4439, providing a simplified procedure for the layout and acceptance of subdivision roads in the city of Marlborough. The clerk announced that the ayes carried and the bills were passed to be enacted.
Earlier in the session the committee on steering, policy and scheduling reported a set of bills for consideration, and members voted to order several bills to a third reading. Members also voted to suspend rules where necessary to permit scheduling and referral: joint rule 12 was suspended on the petition of Megan K. Kilcoyne to refer matters relating to condominium owners’ rights to the committee on the judiciary, and Rule 7A was suspended on motion to permit the day’s actions.
A message from the governor recommending an amendment to increase the Marblehead Board of Health membership from three to five members was read and, on motion by Mister Walsh of Peabody, referred to the committee on bills in third reading. The clerk recorded that the governor’s message was filed Wednesday, Nov. 26, at 12:30 p.m.
No roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript for the enactment votes beyond the emergency-preamble division counts on House 4587; other measures were recorded as having passed when “the ayes have it.”
