The House last week voted to crack down on repeat offenders, cutting off parole and furloughs for felons convicted three times of major crimes. The proposal, known as the “three strikes” bill, lists major crimes as murder, manslaughter, rape, and kidnapping, among others.

Other habitual offenders would be prevented from getting paroled until completion of two-thirds of a prison term, instead of the current standard of half a term.

The vote, which came just before lawmakers adjourned for a recess lasting through the end of the year, was 142 to 12. But the Dorchester delegation was split, with state Reps. Marty Walsh and Nick Collins voting for the bill, and other members, including state Reps. Russell Holmes, Linda Dorcena Forry, Carlos Henriquez and Elizabeth Malia, lining up against it.

The bill was spurred by the fatal shooting of a Woburn police officer, who was killed in 2010 while a felon, who had been paroled from prison despite serving three sentences, was committing a robbery. The Senate passed its own version of the bill in a unanimous vote earlier in the month. House and Senate negotiators will be tasked with hashing out a final version to send to the governor’s desk in the new year.

Walsh said he is “one of the biggest advocates “for people who make mistakes in their lives, particularly drug and alcohol-related ones. “But I still feel … there have to be consequences for their actions,” he said. “These are violent crimes we’re talking about.”

Collins said the legislation “really zeroed in” on violent repeat offenders and strengthened repeat offenders’ appellate rights if there is the possibility of a “miscarriage of justice.” The Supreme Judicial Court would be required to review the case, under the bill.

But the Legislature’s Black and Latino Caucus, along with several other left-leaning lawmakers, voted against the bill, saying that while they support removing violent repeat offenders from their neighborhoods, there hadn’t been enough time to review the House bill. The final version was available for about two days before the vote. They also said the bill lacked clarity.

It also is not as extensive as the Senate version, which reduced mandatory minimum sentences for some non-violent drug crimes and shrank the school zone in which drug offenders were hit with sentences of two to three years to 500 feet from 1,000 feet.

Holmes took to the floor to voice his opposition to the bill and called for a more “holistic” legislation.

Others argued it would lead to overcrowding in prisons.

“It was a tough bill for us to look at because we’re trying to balance the need to get offenders off our streets but also have a sensitive approach to how we reduce recidivism,” Henriquez said. “We weren’t able to do our due diligence” because of how quickly the bills moved through the House and Senate, he said.

Henriquez said that judges already have the power to heavily sentence someone convicted of committing three violent crimes.

Rep. Forry said the House bill was not “comprehensive” and did not include help for offenders who have substance-abuse problems.

Material from State House News Service was used in this report.