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MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Rural Issues Feb 18th, 2026
Special Committee on Rural Issues
Transcript Highlights:
- To preserve long-term access and to keep some of these hospitals open in these rural communities.
- At its core, this is about preserving access to care.
- to work with hospitals and their communities to try to proactively work to develop solutions to preserve
- One of the first things that we do is try to understand, okay, well, is preserving a hospital in this
- Preserving access to care is therefore inseparable from preserving the long-term viability of the community
Committee:
House Special Committee on Rural Issues
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 14, 2026 - 10:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- The statutory text of the bill preserves the the intent of aligning Florida's classification system with
- So this bill is providing that pathway to preserve the insured. >> Follow them show we have, you know
- Once again, legislated reinforce that by preserving the coupling of slots and card license preserving
- That line is completely preserve. Nothing's taken away from a pool contractor.
- This is a replacement only preserve supple Contra scope writer Alex aligned for Frederick compliance.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Judiciary Apr 8th, 2026
Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
Transcript Highlights:
- H.B. 2777 does this while also preserving the important functions of a public nuisance claim.
- It preserves public nuisance claims for illegal products and illegal actions, ensuring liability for
- It preserves those claims.
- This includes preserving consumer protection claims and Anti-Spill Act claims, environmental claims,
- But does this bill strike the appropriate balance between protecting free speech and preserving access
Summary:
The committee first met in executive session and took up House Bill 3443, relating to court costs. Members adopted House Committee Amendment 1, which changed a January reference to July, updated language regarding the Department of Labor or its successors, and removed round-up numbers. The committee then rolled the amendment into a House Committee substitute and voted the substitute do pass by a roll call of 11 ayes and 1 no. House Bill 3304, concerning the offense of keeping a dangerous dog, was then amended to restore prior-bite language and narrow the injury definition to serious physical injury; the committee adopted the amendment, adopted a substitute, and voted the bill do pass 11-1. House Bill 2865, dealing with attorney’s fees and expenses in civil actions and agency proceedings, was approved do pass 12-0. House Bill 2255 was announced as not being taken up that day.
The committee then held public hearings on several bills. House Bill 2777, the Public Nuisance Reform Act, was presented as a measure to narrow public nuisance claims, limit suits involving lawful products and regulated activities, strengthen causation requirements, and restrict who may sue and what damages may be recovered. Supporters from consumer reform, insurance, and civil justice groups said it would curb abusive litigation while preserving traditional nuisance claims; no opposition testimony was offered. House Bill 2667, the Eliminate Criminal Profiteering Act, would bar negligence claims arising from a person’s own wrongful conduct, limit negligent security liability, require apportionment of fault in some cases, and restrict certain recoveries by unauthorized aliens in auto cases. The sponsor and supporters said it would prevent criminals from profiting from their wrongdoing and protect businesses, while committee members raised questions about scope, premises liability, and sovereign immunity.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2666, an anti-SLAPP bill intended to provide a faster dismissal process for lawsuits that are meant to chill speech or petitioning activity. The sponsor and supporters said it would protect free expression and align Missouri with other states, while still preserving claims for genuinely harmed parties. No opposition testimony was presented on either House Bill 2667 or House Bill 2666, and the hearing concluded without any votes on the public hearing bills.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- ><00:01:54.280><c> an</c> asset preservation has become an asset preservation has become an increasingly
- </c><00:02:09.759><c> funding</c> of Minnesota asset preservation funding of Minnesota asset preservation
- </c><00:02:18.800><c> and</c> funding asset preservation and funding asset preservation and maintaining
- Cloud, don't make up the majority of asset preservation on the asset preservation project list.
Committee:
Senate Capital Investment
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Feb 27th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- President, this fits within our priority of maintenance and preservation.
- And some preservation.
- On preservation, this budget will add $1.2 billion over the next six years for preservation of our roads
- On preservation, this budget will add $1.2 billion over the six years for preservation of our roads and
- But we put a lot of money into preservation.
Bills:
SB6061 , SB6234 , SB6170 , SB6176 , SB6182 , SB6335 , SB5647 , SB6047 , HB2367 , HB2606 , SB5998 , SB6005 , SB6003 , SB6129 , SB6225 , SB6228 , SB6231
Summary:
The Senate met on February 23, 2026, opened with the usual roll call, pledge, prayer, and approval of the previous journal. Members then adopted Senate Resolution 8698 recognizing piano teachers, with several senators sharing personal remarks about their own teachers and the role of music education in families and communities. Guests from the Washington State Music Teachers Association and the National Guild of Piano Teachers were recognized in the gallery.
The chamber then moved into budget debate, considering a series of amendments to the operating budget. Several proposals focused on housing costs, local planning, utility rates, and state spending restraint. Amendment 0772, which would have created a housing-related task force and increased funding, was rejected after debate over housing affordability and regulatory costs. Amendment 0785, restoring growth management planning funding for local governments, was also rejected. Amendment 0791, directing the Department of Commerce to study the effects of climate and clean energy laws on utility costs, and Amendment 0769, related to grid capacity and clean energy investments, were both adopted.
Other amendments drew sharper partisan debate. Amendment 0798, which would have reduced the Supreme Court from nine justices to five and redirected savings to public defense, failed. Amendments 0794 and 0795, seeking funding for ballot measure costs tied to initiatives, also failed. Amendment 0799, intended to redirect Pacific Tower lease savings to developmental disability services, was rejected after discussion of the building’s current public uses. Amendment 0773, capping state spending growth and tying it to median wage growth, failed on a roll call vote, while Amendment 0777, addressing concurrent use of paid family and medical leave and sick leave by state employees, also failed after extended debate. Later, Amendment 0776 on tort liability reporting was adopted, as were Amendment 0758 creating a DSHS work group on community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and Amendment 0786 was introduced to reduce cash and food assistance work-related funding, with debate beginning before the transcript ends.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Governmental Oversight and Accountability Mar 11th, 2025
Governmental Oversight and Accountability
Transcript Highlights:
- The financial burden of fertility preservation is often prohibitive, up to $15,000 for egg freezing and
- State Health Insurance Plan covers standard fertility preservation services for individuals undergoing
- This amendment expands Florida state employee fertility preservation coverage beyond cancer to include
- have access; mandates coverage under the State Group Insurance Program for standard fertility preservation
- that you want to hopefully once you overcome that disease, you get to have children and you get to preserve
Summary:
The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability met and reported several bills favorably. Senate Bill 7000 repealed the sunset on a public records exemption protecting site-specific location information for threatened and endangered species; Senate Bill 7006 preserved exemptions for building plans and related records showing 911, E911, public safety radio, and NG911 infrastructure; and Senate Bill 7004 extended the exemption for property photographs and personal identifying information tied to certain housing assistance programs. Each of those bills drew no questions, no public testimony, and no debate before favorable votes.
The committee also considered Senate Bill 448 on administrative procedure, which proposed broader reforms to the Administrative Procedure Act, including agency rulemaking oversight and cost-benefit analysis requirements. An amendment removed the bill’s eight-year sunset. The Florida Bar’s Administrative Law Section testified with concerns that some provisions could chill agency guidance, increase costs and delays, and create standing issues for challenges. Supportive testimony also came from Americans for Prosperity and the James Madison Institute. After debate, the committee reported the bill favorably as amended.
Senate Bill 1058, as amended, updated state references to the “Gulf of America” in geographic and instructional materials and removed the road designation of Tamami Trail. Senator Polsky objected to the change as unnecessary and wasteful, while the sponsor said the bill simply aligns materials with the new name going forward. The committee adopted the strike-all amendment and then reported the bill favorably. Later, Senate Bill 924 was heard and amended to expand state employee fertility preservation coverage beyond cancer to other medically necessary treatments, remove age limits, require coverage of standard cryopreservation services, and set storage limits. Senators Polsky and Rodriguez praised the measure as important for young patients facing infertility risks, while one senator questioned whether the state group plan was the right vehicle. The committee reported SB 924 favorably, and members later recorded additional affirmative votes on SB 448 and SB 1058 before adjournment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor debate of HF24 3/13/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- clear in state law that all reasonable measures, consistent with good medical practice, are used to preserve
- You know, members, I've had the honor of preserving life for 31 years as an EMT.
- </c><00:14:54.360><c> life</c> I've had the honor of preserving life I've had the honor of preserving
- care for any baby Care to LIF preserving care for any baby that<00:16:26.639><c> is</c><00:16:26.920
- :53.960><c> it's</c> is not preserving the life and it's is not preserving the life and it's incumbent
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs (01/21/2025)
Election Law and Municipal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:47:03.640><c> of</c> means for encouraging preservation of means for encouraging preservation
- historic structures, to preserve the Shoreland, and to preserve the open spaces and wooded, you know
- the shoreline, to preserve the water quality.
- historic structures, to preserve the Shoreland, and to preserve the open spaces and wooded, you know
- the shoreline, to preserve the water quality.
Committee:
Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 22 Mar 9th, 2026
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 3266, an act relative to municipal tax collectors; House Bill 3271, an act relative to preserving
- information content of historic resources within community preservation funds; and House Bill 5097,
- information content of historic resources within community preservation funds; and House Bill 5097,
- House Bill 3271, an act relative to preserving information content of historic resources within community
- preservation funds.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
SPEED Task Force (STF) - Thu Sept 11, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- by the preservation laws to<03:23:33.840><c> preserve</c><03:23:34.319><c> Hawaiian</c><03:23:35.040
- ><c> culture</c> to preserve Hawaiian culture to preserve Hawaiian culture um<03:23:36.720><c> in</c>
- </c> maintain our federal preservation maintain our federal preservation programs.<03:31:06.640><c> 10%
- </c> follow certain standards of preservation follow certain standards of preservation in<03:31:35.600
- </c> property that we need to try to preserve property that we need to try to preserve and<03:33:12.960
Summary:
The task force held its first meeting, beginning with roll call and introductions of members and participants in the room and on Zoom. The chair emphasized Sunshine Law transparency, noted the meeting was on September 11, and opened public testimony on the orientation report. No one testified in person or on Zoom, and the chair observed a moment of silence in remembrance of 9/11 before moving into the agenda.
The chair then reported on several orientation presentations given statewide between July 18 and September 5, including meetings with transit-oriented development, the Maui Chamber of Commerce, the Kona-Kohala Chamber, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce on Hawaiʻi Island, the Hawaiʻi Island Chamber of Commerce, the Hawaiʻi Island Native Hawaiian Chamber, and the Capo Chamber of Commerce. The main presentation item was a detailed overview from Kauaʻi County on its permitting process. County staff explained that zoning and building permits are handled separately on the outer islands, with zoning focused on form, character, and compatibility, and building permits focused on health and safety. They described a two-tier zoning system: ministerial permits that are automatically approved if not acted on within 30 days, and discretionary permits that go to the planning commission and can become lengthy contested cases if there is intervention. They also discussed special management area review in coastal areas, which can add time, and explained that building permits must conform to what was approved in zoning.
Kauaʻi County staff also outlined the building permit process, including online and in-person submission, coordination with planning, engineering, water, wastewater, health, and fire agencies, and the county’s fully electronic review system using ProjectDox and related software. They noted that applicants are encouraged to check zoning, water, wastewater, and floodplain issues before hiring someone to prepare plans, especially for homeowners. The county shared permit and utility statistics and said the public can check permit history through Click2Gov. No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided; after the Kauaʻi presentation, the chair opened a question period for members.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- have more buildings like Milgard Hall in Tacoma, for example, that beautiful building, and also preserve
- So we'll end up ...and also preserve more forests, and those two actually work in opposition, so we'll
- The City of Spokane Valley uses a TBD fee for payment preservation. 22.
- The city of Spokane Valley uses a TBD fee for payment preservation and maintenance as there is limited
- We welcome the legislature's focus on transportation system preservation, and we greatly appreciate the
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
county ferry district, ferry district, passenger-only ferry, passenger ferry, Puget Sound, Vashon, Seattle, Southworth, county transportation, local taxing authority, property tax levy, general obligation bonds, municipal corporation, public transportation benefit area, WTSC, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, ferry terminal, wharf, shuttle service, marine transportation
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
January 14, 2025 - 09:00 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- So preserving our most precious, valuable resource is very important to me, our saltwater aquifers.
- I'm very interested in the Florida Springs and their preservation and their restoration.
- So for me, this committee is right in my wheelhouse, trying to preserve the Everglades, the coral reefs
- The Catfish Creek Preserve State Park in Polk County.
- And that is what the FWC is here for and committed to preserve and work toward in the future.
Summary:
The Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee met to organize for the session, confirm a quorum, and hear introductory remarks from members about their districts and interests. Chair Esposito outlined the committee’s jurisdiction and budget overview, noting a total budget of about $7.2 billion, with major funding tied to the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Fish and Wildlife, and the Department of Citrus. She also described major cost drivers such as Everglades restoration, water quality, resiliency, land acquisition, and rural family lands, and asked members to review agency requests in small groups later in the process.
Agency leaders then presented budget and program updates. Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson emphasized department efficiency efforts, including IT modernization, staff reorganization, rural and family lands conservation, best management practices, Fresh From Florida marketing, hurricane recovery loans for farmers, and completion of the Connor Complex headquarters. DEP Secretary Alexis Lambert highlighted record investments in Everglades restoration, water quality projects, resilience grants, land acquisition, state parks, and enforcement. FWC Executive Director Roger Young discussed conservation research, fisheries and wildlife management, law enforcement, disaster response, and pressures from growth, boating, invasive species, and derelict vessels. Department of Citrus Executive Director Shannon Shep reviewed the industry’s decline due to hurricanes and citrus greening, current research and marketing efforts, and e-commerce campaigns to support Florida citrus sales.
Members asked questions about citrus production declines, future replanting and therapies, rural family lands, PFOS cleanup, mangrove restoration, flooding and pump infrastructure, agricultural theft, and derelict vessel removal. Officials generally responded with updates, emphasized science-based management and enforcement, and in several cases said they would follow up with more detailed information later. No formal votes were taken; the meeting ended with the chair directing members to provide feedback on agencies for further budget review and then adjournment.
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Apr 7th, 2026
State Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- success that we have a way to preserve success that we have a responsibility,<00:42:03.520><c> we</c
- This is going to help preserve because they're seeing in their classrooms in frontline battles, right
- They're the light bulbs came on and they understood why it's important to preserve principle."
- </c><00:52:46.400><c> I</c><00:52:46.640><c> went</c> important to preserve principle."
- I went important to preserve principle."
Committee:
Senate State Governmental Affairs
Keywords:
PFAS, drinking water, public health, environmental management, liability, primary elections, party registration, party affiliation, open primary, closed primary, runoff election, crossover voting, voter registration, Secretary of State, absentee ballot, polling place signage, election integrity, political party, Democrat, Republican
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Removing these tools from the district’s toolbox will reduce our state’s ability to preserve ag land
- And we’ve identified that both farmland preservation and sustainable farming and habitat restoration
- And we've identified that both farmland preservation and sustainable farming and habitat restoration
- Farmland preservation and keeping working farms in production is a top priority for our district and
- Our community has consistently identified farmland preservation, farm succession, and keeping land in
Committee:
House Local Government
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Up next, we have RS 33538 on the agenda: Fertility preservation services.
- The decision to preserve, Cancer diagnosis, treatment often must begin quickly.
- The decision to preserve their fertility is made under extreme and quite often emotional and medical
- Additional procedures for sperm banking and ovarian tissue preservation can oftentimes go up.
- It's affirming Idaho's commitment to preserving our families.
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm grateful for your support of the agency's base programs that create and preserve housing opportunities
- Thank you. their rights when it comes to preserving their rights when it comes to preserving their<00
- It costs an average of $25,000 per unit to stabilize and preserve a home and a residential community,
- </c><00:23:38.640><c> a</c> per unit to stabilize and preserve a per unit to stabilize and preserve a
- strategy to preserve affordable housing that<00:25:49.760><c> already</c><00:25:50.159><c> exists</c
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jul 23rd, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It just preserves over 90 years of existing rights that workers have had to rely on.
- So I have an example of how TOPA could work to preserve low-cost housing from my district.
- They have kept tenants housed and preserved thousands of affordable units. Thank you.
- We need to preserve at least some. Thank you. Leave or they evict them.
- We need to preserve at least some of our remaining modestly priced homes.
Summary:
The Senate considered a large number of amendments to an economic development bill and adopted them one by one, with repeated brief recesses as members finalized language. Early amendments made permanent the option for hybrid public meetings and added procedures for alleged open meeting law violations, authorized speed camera enforcement in school and construction safety zones, and created a retirement credit option for part-time teachers who reduced hours to care for children. Other adopted amendments updated gateway municipality designations every three years, capped ticket resale prices and banned speculative “ghost tickets,” and addressed vulnerable road users, crumbling concrete, and a fund for seasonal communities housing.
Members also approved amendments to create a new framework for responding to crimes against women, including better investigation of staged suicides and adding sex and gender to the hate crimes statute; to establish a trigger law protecting private-sector labor organizing rights if federal labor law is weakened; to create a bottom-up “Enough Act” fund to fight poverty; to allow airport restaurants and bars at Logan to operate during flight hours; and to protect seniors and adults with disabilities from financial scams by allowing temporary delays of suspicious transactions and reporting to protective agencies. Additional housing-related amendments were adopted for rural communities, residential PACE financing, and a five-community tenant opportunity to purchase pilot program. A Senate Ways and Means amendment was then adopted, the substitute draft was applied to the underlying bill, and the bill was ordered to a third reading and then passed to be engrossed.
The chamber also adopted an order to reconvene the following Monday at 11 a.m. and to dispense with printing a calendar. The Senate then adjourned.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Feb 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The Idaho State Historical Society is charged with identifying and preserving historically significant
- and share Idaho's historical records, artifacts, historic sites, and preservation programs, providing
- Gallimore, when the State Historical Preservation Office is asked to weigh in on a construction activity
- of the National Historic Preservation Act.
- The State Historic Preservation Office operates under the regulations of the National Historic Preservation
Summary:
The committee heard budget presentations first for the Idaho Workforce Development Council. Analyst Brooke Dupree reviewed the agency’s statutory role, funding sources, staffing, and FY27 requests, including an ongoing transfer within the In Demand Careers Fund to increase trustee and benefit payments for Idaho Launch grants, a proposal to consolidate the STEM Action Center into the council, and requests for reappropriation authority for several grant funds. Director Wendy Sechrist said Launch, workforce training, semiconductor, and child care grants have produced strong participation and wage gains, and she explained that the proposed STEM merger would transfer remaining dedicated-fund balances to the Workforce Development Training Fund. Members asked about the effect of a $10 million cash transfer on Launch awards, repayment of grants by students who do not meet requirements, and the use of employer training funds; Sechrist said wording such as “up to $10 million” would avoid reducing awards and that the agency is still exploring debt collection options.
The committee then reviewed the Idaho Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Dupree outlined the agency’s vocational rehabilitation and independent living services, its dedicated funds, and FY27 requests for additional appropriation to spend Social Security reimbursement revenue and for replacement vehicles from the adaptive aids fund. Administrator Beth Cunningham said the agency uses those funds to support clients’ employment and independence, and that the requested increases would help cover needed vehicles and offset other costs. She also said holdbacks would have a modest effect on services, including reduced site restoration funding and some cuts to client services and travel.
Finally, the Idaho State Historical Society presented its budget. Dupree described the agency’s preservation mission, staffing, dedicated funds, and FY27 requests, including $450,000 for the second year of moving state records and collections into a new archives addition, plus IT hardware and reappropriation authority. Director Janet Gallimore emphasized stewardship of state records and artifacts, the importance of the collections move, and the agency’s role in America 250 activities. Members asked about archaeological review travel, the agency’s long tenure, and the use of miscellaneous revenue; Gallimore agreed to provide travel records and thanked the committee for its support. The meeting ended with a presentation of historical artifacts and adjournment until the next day.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Feb 9th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The operating account has some language on preserve or increase, or both, greenhouse gas sequestration
- storage benefits and forests; this would change the word preserve to retain.
- to the carbon emissions reduction account, or CERA, for transportation infrastructure painting, preservation
- actually be able to be used to preserve, make repairs, and improve against climate forces that have
- That will free up our tax dollars to be able to do more to preserve our roads and our bridges, and make
Summary:
The committee took up a series of transportation-related bills and proposed substitutes, with most measures advancing after discussion and roll-call or voice votes. House Bill 2092, creating a Washington State Amtrak Cascades Passenger Rail Advisory Committee, was amended by a proposed substitute that broadened membership and duties, and it passed 20-6. House Bill 2114, allowing fee waivers for replacement defective license plates, passed unanimously. House Bill 2172, clarifying route jurisdiction transfers and abandonments for highways and local roads, also passed unanimously after a substitute requiring agreements or legislative action for longer highway abandonments or those involving bridges.
House Bill 2251, which restructures Climate Commitment Act accounts and revenue distribution, drew the most amendment activity. Two amendments were adopted to adjust forest carbon language and clarify Ecology administration funding, while amendments to redirect revenue to transportation infrastructure and to split excess revenue differently failed. The bill then passed 18-8 as amended. House Bill 2374, which redefines e-bikes and electric motorcycles and creates a work group on enforcement and safety, passed unanimously after a substitute added stakeholder representation and asked the work group to explore civil infractions and penalties. House Bill 2410, creating a Commercial Truck Safety and Education Council and increasing a safety fee, passed 25-1 after a substitute changed appointment authority, membership, and other council provisions.
House Bill 2552, authorizing WSDOT and a regional transit authority to use MATOC contracting, was amended to add apprenticeship, prevailing wage, and notification requirements and then passed 16-10. House Bill 2588, expanding ferry district authority beyond passenger-only ferries, passed 16-10 amid concerns about taxing authority and voter input. House Bill 2718, setting timelines and processes for permit streamlining and originally including contractor ratings, had the contractor-rating section removed by amendment and then passed unanimously. House Bill 2722, increasing the vehicle weight threshold for transportation benefit district fees from 6,000 to 10,000 pounds, passed 17-9. House Bill 2727, creating an educational transit access grant program for community and technical college students, passed 21-5 after supporters emphasized student access and equity, while some members raised rural access concerns.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 22 Mar 9th, 2026
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 3266, an act relative to municipal tax collectors; House Bill 3271, an act relative to preserving
- information content of historic resources within community preservation funds; House Bill 5097, an act
- House Bill 3266, an act relative to municipal tax collectors; House Bill 3271, an act relative to preserving
- information content of historic resources within community preservation funds; and House Bill 5097,
- An act relative to preserving information content of historic resources within community preservation
Summary:
The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Committee on Rules reports. It adopted resolutions congratulating Auburn on the 100th anniversary of the first liquid-fueled rocket launch and welcoming Boston’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, the Boston Legacy. The House also adopted orders extending the reporting deadlines for the Committee on Revenue on certain House documents into 2026.
The chamber then suspended joint rules to allow several petitions to be referred to committees, including a proposal to regulate social media accounts for children under 16, a sick leave bank for a Department of Children and Families employee, creditable service for a probation employee, taxation of certain foreign government pension benefits, and a bill naming the American Lobster the official crustacean of the Commonwealth. The Steering, Policy and Scheduling Committee reported a slate of bills for House consideration, including measures on private road maintenance in Gloucester, property valuation and tax assessment fairness, municipal tax collectors, historic resources in community preservation funds, and Salem alcohol license changes; the House suspended Rule 7A and ordered these bills to a third reading.
The House then passed to be enacted several local bills, including legislation for Revere, Wellesley, and Hopkinton, and passed to be engrossed a bill directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a named applicant. The session also included a moment of silent tribute to Adrian Dolan of South Boston, a former correction officer and special state police officer. Finally, the House adopted an adjournment order and recessed until Thursday at 11 a.m. in informal session.