---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting Ryan M. Charette from the maximum age requirement for appointment as a firefighter in the town of Dracut"
description: "An Act exempting Ryan M. Charette from the maximum age requirement for appointment as a firefighter in the town of Dracut"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3703"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3703 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Public Service"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-06"
last_action: "2019-11-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1085cf6-b287-4c4b-8681-8909f8b85c37"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3703"
source_hash: "cf1f4b7fe8bb2b54eee15058bb5268f9f146dfdb90c9f38e47277000bd087425"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3703 (191st) — An Act exempting Ryan M. Charette from the maximum age requirement for appointment as a firefighter in the town of Dracut

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3703.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-06** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2019-05-06** New draft of S1530 and H2262
- **2019-05-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-16** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-09-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-09-12** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-10-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-11-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-11-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 109 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1085cf6-b287-4c4b-8681-8909f8b85c37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).