The Massachusetts House of Representatives adopted the Ways and Means Committee amendment to Senate Bill 2540, a supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2025, and ordered the amended bill to third reading. The Ways and Means Committee reported an amendment that replaced the bill text with the content of House document 4265 and listed a total appropriation of $536,832,564.
Members voted to adopt the Ways and Means amendment on a voice vote and the presiding officer announced that the amendment was adopted. The House then ordered the bill to third reading as amended and later passed the bill to be engrossed.
After receiving the bill back from the Senate with an endorsement that the Senate non-concurred with the House amendment and had appointed a committee of conference, the House voted to insist on its amendments. The House then moved to appoint a committee of conference. The chair announced appointees named on the floor, including Mister Mikowitz of Boston, Miss Ferrante of Gloucester, and Mister Smola of Warren; the transcript also references Mister Mariano Quincy in the order of the clerk’s record.
The transcript does not provide debate on the substance of the amendment’s line items beyond the Ways and Means report, nor does it include the conference committee’s subsequent work. The appropriation figure recorded in the Ways and Means report in the provided excerpt is $536,832,564.