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House schedules several local bills for consideration, including Plainville, Milford and Revere measures
Summary
The House steering committee scheduled multiple local bills for consideration, including bills affecting Plainville (special police appointments), Milford (town-meeting nomination process), Westborough (charter), Revere (rooming-house penalties), and Hopedale (town administrator).
The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported that the House would schedule a group of local bills for consideration, Speaker 2 announced. The slate listed in the committee report includes:
- A Senate bill authorizing the appointment of retired police officers as special police officers in the town of Plainville (Senate no. 1898), local approval received; - A House bill relative to the nomination process for candidates for Town Meeting in Milford (House no. 4185), local approval received; - A House bill relative to the charter of the town of Westborough (House no. 4751), local approval received; - A House bill permitting the city of Revere to establish penalties and liens for rooming-house and certificates-of-fitness ordinance violations (House no. 4752); - A House bill providing for a town administrator in the town of Hopedale (House no. 4784), local approval received.
The committee report recorded local-approval notations for several of the items; the transcript does not include the full bill text, fiscal notes or municipal bylaws referenced. Scheduling a bill places it on the House calendar for consideration but does not reflect final action on any of the listed measures.
