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House advances multiple bills, schedules joint convention to receive governor, and passes Wellesley land conveyance
Summary
The Massachusetts House suspended rules to advance numerous orders, moved several bills to third reading or to be engrossed, adopted an emergency preamble by unanimous division and passed an engrossed land‑conveyance bill for property in Wellesley; the legislature also scheduled a joint convention to receive the governor.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives used suspensions of its rules to advance multiple orders and bills, moved several measures to third reading, and passed an engrossed land‑conveyance bill for property in the town of Wellesley.
On a division count for the emergency preamble to an engrossed conveyance bill (presented as House Bill 4363), monitors reported nine voting in favor and zero in opposition; the chair announced the emergency preamble was adopted. The engrossed bill authorizing the Commissioner of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance to convey a parcel in Wellesley was thereafter presented and the House passed it to be enacted.
The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported a slate of bills for consideration and the House ordered several to third reading, including bills relating to electronic scanning of identifications (House No. 3716) and local requests to waive maximum age requirements for named police applicants; those waiver bills were released for third reading and later passed to be engrossed. House Bill 1068, addressing Department of Conservation and Recreation compliance with Title 9, was released by the Committee on Bills in Third Reading and passed to be engrossed.
The Senate sent an order that a joint convention of the two branches be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 01/22/2026, “for the purpose of receiving such communication as the governor, Maura Healey, may be pleased to make”; the House suspended rules and adopted the order.
After completing business, the chamber adopted a special adjournment in memory of former member Arthur H. Tobin and adjourned to meet next Thursday at 11 a.m. in an informal session.
