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House advances several local and personnel bills to third reading or engrossing

October 02, 2025 | 2025 Legislature MA, Massachusetts


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House advances several local and personnel bills to third reading or engrossing
The Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling reported a slate of bills for consideration, and the House approved suspensions of rules to move multiple measures to second and third reading or to be engrossed. Items the committee reported and the House advanced in the provided transcript include: House 667 (An act relative to school absences), House 4381 (An act further regarding the term of town moderator in the town of Norwood), House 4565 (sick leave bank for Marie Latendree), House 3914 (disability retirement for Casey Lettalian), House 3963 (retirement for Greg Heath), House 3899 (reserved capacity billing in the town of Norfolk), House 4210 (town resident requirement for the town manager of Dalton), House 4348 (an act relative to a cemetery in the town of Norton), House 4514 (sick leave bank for Candy J. Pike), and others referenced in committee reports.

The House repeatedly used suspensions of rule 7A and joint rule 12 to schedule and advance the bills. The motions to suspend were put by members identified in the transcript (for example, "Mr. Vice Chair Wellesley moves suspension of the rules" and other members moving Rule 7A suspensions); each such suspension was followed by the chair’s voice question and the announcement that "the ayes have it." Several bills were then added to third reading or passed to be engrossed by voice vote, with no recorded roll-call tallies in the supplied excerpt.

The transcript also shows committee reports referring petitions to appropriate committees, including petitions on law enforcement mask penalties, establishment of sick leave banks, and designation of awareness days; those petitions were referred to the judiciary, public service, state administration and regulatory oversight, and transportation committees as recorded. The provided transcript captures procedural scheduling and referrals rather than floor debate about the substantive content of most of these measures.

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