---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the maximum age requirement for original appointment as a police officer for the town of Dedham"
description: "By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3910) of Paul McMurtry and Michael F. Rush (by vote of the town) relative to the maximum age requirement for original appointment as a police officer in the town of Dedham. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3910"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3910 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-06-12"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d15babf-a426-42e5-b4dd-22c1e4e3d41f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3910"
source_hash: "d762bce7c3f0ae61b115890166788e060ae61ba68908cdb9d446d12f7e4ba2aa"
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 3910 (193rd) — An Act relative to the maximum age requirement for original appointment as a police officer for the town of Dedham

By Representative McMurtry of Dedham and Senator Rush, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3910) of Paul McMurtry and Michael F. Rush (by vote of the town) relative to the maximum age requirement for original appointment as a police officer in the town of Dedham. 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/193/H3910.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)
- Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-12** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-23** Hearing scheduled for 06/29/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2023-10-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-10-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-10-26** Rules suspended
- **2023-10-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-11-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-11-15** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-07** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 52 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d15babf-a426-42e5-b4dd-22c1e4e3d41f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).