Amendment #9 to H2015

Relative to remote voting from committee rooms

Mr. Hill of Ipswich moves to amend the order in House Rule 48, after line 998, by inserting the following two paragraphs:

“There shall be a system of remote voting from committee rooms using a mathematical representation of a fingerprint’s characteristics, rather than a photographic image. Members of the House may volunteer to participate in a remote voting program that will allow for recognition of the identity of each member casting votes using such system.

There shall be installed in each hearing room and in the Gardner Auditorium at least one voting station to allow for such voting.  Each voting station shall consist of one flat panel color display in each committee room and three voting stations and one flat panel color display in Gardner Auditorium.  The display panel shall show a live image of the roll call board and details regarding the question being voted upon by the House.  A member of the House attending a hearing being held in a committee room or Gardner Auditorium who is a participant in the remote voting program may, when a roll call is ordered in the House, place his or her finger on either the yea or the nay device that will be available at each such voting station.  The screen at the voting station will immediately indicate the name of the member and the vote of the member and ask for verification.  Upon verification by the member casting the vote, the roll call board in the House Chamber will display that member’s vote.”