---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Lowell to appoint retired police officers as special police officers within said city for paid detail assignments"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3824). July 31, 2019."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4022"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4022 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-07-31"
last_action: "2019-09-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4feb7b6-0895-4ed7-af12-76c4e4eda16c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4022"
source_hash: "64c56121a878d6e9838de3aad63bc3eb3eae1d0e59f1938d096486fd9ce9b95e"
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 4022 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city of Lowell to appoint retired police officers as special police officers within said city for paid detail assignments

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3824). July 31, 2019.

## 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/H4022.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)
- Theodore C. Speliotis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-31** Substituted for H3824
- **2019-07-31** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2019-08-05** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-08-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-08-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-08-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-09-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 69 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/f4feb7b6-0895-4ed7-af12-76c4e4eda16c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).