The House now plans to advance a rewrite of a gun reform bill, cutting the Senate out of the initial process after an earlier proposal got caught in procedural limbo.
Massachusetts House Democrats kicked off a renewed push for a sweeping overhaul to the state's gun laws Thursday morning with the release of an"updated" bill and a plan to open a vote by the end of the month.
The House Ways and Means Committee will host a public hearing Tuesday — an unusual step for a panel that typically does not meet publicly without its Senate counterparts — about the reform legislation, House Speaker Ron Mariano and his top deputies said Thursday. After that, the House plans to bring the bill to the floor for a vote"later in the month," Mariano said.
The redraft would still require serialization of firearm parts, update the state's assault weapons ban and limit the ability to carry guns in certain spaces, but each of those provisions has been tweaked from the original bill, Day said.
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