---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act allowing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers"
description: "By Mrs. Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2714) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Donald H. Wong (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 2714"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2714 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kate Lipper-Garabedian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-08-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0daee36-ae7a-49c0-a668-90bd3a572de5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H2714"
source_hash: "5b0a07624baf4996b7a26cb2454eaea4deab13e87c7d7e6186e504f2f0546adb"
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 2714 (192nd) — An Act allowing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers

By Mrs. Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2714) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Donald H. Wong (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/192/H2714.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — primary (person)
- Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Senate concurred
- **2021-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-06-09** Rules suspended
- **2021-06-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-07-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-07-12** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-08-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-08-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-08-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-08-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-08-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 42 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0daee36-ae7a-49c0-a668-90bd3a572de5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).