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Mass. House approves multiple orders extending committee reporting deadlines after suspending rules
Summary
The Massachusetts House adopted several committee orders extending reporting deadlines for standing committees and repeatedly suspended rules to advance the measures, with motions to suspend offered and adopted by voice vote.
The Massachusetts House adopted a series of committee orders extending the time for multiple standing committees to report on pending House documents, suspending its rules repeatedly to consider the measures.
Speaker 2 read a committee-on-rules report on an order filed by Representatives Viola (Fall River) and Genino (Revere) to extend until March 16, 2026 the time for the Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies to report on House No. 4785. Mr. Wong moved to suspend the rules to consider the order; members voted ‘aye’ and the Speaker stated the rules were suspended and the order was adopted.
Additional orders reported by the committee extended reporting deadlines for the committee on environment and natural resources (House No. 4793), the committee on labor and workforce development (House No. 4794), the committee on mental health, substance abuse and recovery (House No. 4792, filed by Representatives Dom of Amherst and DuBois of Brockton), and the committee on municipalities and regional government (House No. 4791, filed by Representative Veil of Framingham). In each instance a member moved to suspend the rules and the membership adopted the orders on voice votes.
The moves to suspend rules were procedural and unanimous by voice vote in the chamber’s recorded proceedings; no roll-call vote by name was recorded in the transcript for these orders. The measures extend internal deadlines for committees to report back to the full House and do not by themselves change substantive policy.
The House recessed briefly during the session and later returned to consider other business, including scheduling bills for third reading and final passage of engrossed bills.
The House adjourned after adopting an order to reconvene Monday next at 11 a.m.
