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House adopts ceremonial resolutions and passes multiple local bills to be engrossed
Summary
The House adopted several congratulatory resolutions and passed multiple local bills — including a corner designation in Pembroke and exceptions to police age limits and civil service rules — sending them to be engrossed. The House also scheduled several municipal measures for future consideration and adjourned until Monday at 11:00 a.m.
The House convened, adopted several ceremonial resolutions and approved multiple local measures for further action during a brief, largely procedural session.
The committee on rules reported a package of resolutions that the House adopted by voice vote, including a resolution congratulating the United States Peace Corps on its 65th anniversary and resolutions recognizing three young people who achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, according to the Clerk. "All those in favor say aye," the Chair said as the body adopted the resolutions.
The Clerk read a list of local bills the steering, policy and scheduling committee recommended for consideration, including a measure authorizing the Provincetown year-round market-rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (House No. 3909) and bills concerning municipal affordable-housing trust funds and local appointment/removal authority. The House suspended rules to proceed with consideration and routed multiple measures to second and third reading as appropriate.
Votes at a glance - House No. 3790 (designation of an intersection in Pembroke as the Lavena A. Hatch Corner): passed to be engrossed by voice vote. - House No. 4718 (changes to maximum age requirement for police officers in Newton): passed to be engrossed by voice vote. - House No. 4879 (authorization for Jonathan Gagne to take the civil service exam for a Haverhill police officer position notwithstanding age limits): passed to be engrossed by voice vote.
Most roll-call details and individual tallies were not recorded in the transcript; each action was decided by voice vote. The Clerk read multiple additional municipal bills to be scheduled, including measures about housing trusts, commercial-fishermen preferences, town charter and town clerk matters, and a special revenue account for land acquisition in Plymouth (house numbers and titles as announced by the Clerk were included in the record).
The House adopted the order to adjourn and stood adjourned to reconvene Monday next at 11:00 a.m.
