--- type: "Bill" title: "An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Luis Cabral" description: "By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4349) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Luis Cabral as a police officer in the city of Boston, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]" jurisdiction: "us/states/ma" legislature: "Massachusetts General Court" session: "194th" identifier: "H 4349" citation: "Massachusetts H 4349 (194th)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: [] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Rob Consalvo"] version_count: 1 action_count: 16 vote_count: 0 first_action: "2025-07-28" last_action: "2026-03-26" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f6dab2d-e273-4ffd-ae39-43eb6a525790" source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4349" source_hash: "296c01624e8cfc2edf90526c7e85bd2b0f7d5c2f1600f1e20562255bea2a87d1" 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 4349 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Luis Cabral By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4349) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Luis Cabral as a police officer in the city of Boston, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. 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/194/H4349.pdf) ## Sponsors - Rob Consalvo — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-07-28** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee` - **2025-07-31** Senate concurred - **2025-09-03** Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2025 from 1:00 PM-4:00 PM in A-1 - **2025-09-10** Hearing rescheduled to 09/10/2025 from 01:00 PM-01:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time - **2025-12-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2026-01-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting - **2026-01-15** Rules suspended - **2026-01-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2` - **2026-02-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3` - **2026-02-05** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session - **2026-02-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2` - **2026-03-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day - **2026-03-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3` - **2026-03-18** Enacted `passage` - **2026-03-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage` - **2026-03-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 48 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f6dab2d-e273-4ffd-ae39-43eb6a525790`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).