House adopts order transferring agriculture and elder-affairs matters to new joint committees

The Massachusetts House adopted an order transferring all matters that were before the temporary joint committee on agriculture to a new joint committee on agriculture and fisheries, and transferring matters from the joint committee on elder affairs to a new joint committee on aging and independence.

The order, which the clerk read on the floor, was adopted without recorded roll-call opposition. "If there be no objection," the clerk said on the floor before the question was put, and the chair announced "The ayes have it."

The order also provides that the membership of the previously established temporary committees will serve as the membership for the newly named committees. The transfers were made under an order that came from the Senate with endorsement and were accepted as read on the House floor.