---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Doumy Pamera"
description: "By Representative Montaño of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4572) of Samantha Montaño (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Doumy Pamera 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 4572"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4572 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samantha Montaño"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-29"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27e00fde-d012-47d2-bd65-12be64936b66"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4572"
source_hash: "397002f147fa5ae5e92915a5c7bee3b478b57b1e0fec4a66a12caa255621379b"
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 4572 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Doumy Pamera

By Representative Montaño of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4572) of Samantha Montaño (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Doumy Pamera 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/H4572.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Samantha Montaño — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-29** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-02** Senate concurred
- **2025-11-20** Hearing scheduled for 11/20/2025 from 05:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2026-02-02** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-03-02** Rules suspended
- **2026-03-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-26** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-03-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 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/27e00fde-d012-47d2-bd65-12be64936b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).