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Mass. House appoints committees, concurs on Malden charter amendments and advances sick‑leave bill
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Summary
In a short session the Massachusetts House agreed to procedural orders including committee appointments and rule suspensions, concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 4233 amending Malden’s charter, and advanced Senate Bill 2799 establishing a sick‑leave bank to be engrossed.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives met for a brief legislative session that combined ceremonial recognition with a series of procedural actions and votes. The chamber appointed members to inform the Senate that the House is ready to proceed, suspended several rules to permit immediate consideration of orders, concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 4233 regarding the charter of the city of Malden, and passed Senate Bill 2799 to be engrossed, a measure described in the text as creating a sick‑leave bank for a named Department of Elementary and Secondary Education employee.
The session opened with the presiding member calling the House to order and several procedural motions. Mister Mariano Quincy moved that a special committee be appointed to inform the Senate that the House was called to order; the motion was adopted by voice vote. The chair then appointed the committee members named in the record and instructed them to proceed to the well to meet the Senate.
Later, the House adopted an order directing the clerk to begin daily publication of the House journal under House Rule 10, to dispense with daily oral reading, and to print and bind copies of the journal for the session under authority of section 22A of chapter 3 of the General Laws with attested copies to be deposited with the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The House received an order from the Senate asking that a committee composed of members of both branches wait upon the governor and lieutenant governor; Mister Gabelli of Arlington moved to suspend the rules to consider the order, and the motion to suspend the rules was adopted by voice vote.
On committee business, the committees on rules reported on a petition by Alice Hanlon Peist related to the Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code and recommended suspension of Joint Rule 12 to refer the petition to the Committee on Financial Services; the House suspended Joint Rule 12 by voice vote to allow the referral.
Votes at a glance: • House Bill 4233 (charter amendment for the city of Malden): The House reported that the committee on bills in the third reading released the bill; the House concurred with the Senate amendments by voice vote. The record states only the adoption by voice vote; individual roll‑call tallies are not specified in the transcript. • Senate Bill 2799 ("An act establishing a sick leave bank for Jeffrey Yanthen, an employee of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education"): The House passed the bill to be engrossed by voice vote; individual roll‑call tallies are not specified in the transcript.
The presiding member closed the brief session by adopting an order to adjourn to meet the following day at 11:00 a.m. and the House adjourned on a voice vote.
Quotes recorded in the session were procedural and formulaic, for example the presiding member’s routine calls of "All those in favor, say aye," and the chamber’s response "The ayes have it."
