---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting Joanne Ricardelli from the maximum age requirements for firefighters in the town of Wilmington"
description: "By Representative Robertson of Tewksbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3964) of David Allen Robertson (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt Joanne Ricardelli from the maximum age requirement for appointment as a firefighter in the town of Wilmington. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3964"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3964 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Allen Robertson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-03"
last_action: "2023-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb7cbdbf-9b7b-40ab-b1c1-5693993728cb"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3964"
source_hash: "0e6fd4559a29e21f4408c53251ff0a35f9e2104691d9999e2a49881074625a5e"
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 3964 (193rd) — An Act exempting Joanne Ricardelli from the maximum age requirements for firefighters in the town of Wilmington

By Representative Robertson of Tewksbury, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3964) of David Allen Robertson (by vote of the town) for legislation to exempt Joanne Ricardelli from the maximum age requirement for appointment as a firefighter in the town of Wilmington. 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/H3964.pdf)

## Sponsors

- David Allen Robertson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-03** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** Senate concurred
- **2023-07-07** Hearing scheduled for 07/11/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-07-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2023-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-08-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-08-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2023-08-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-08-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-10-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2023-10-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-10-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-10-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb7cbdbf-9b7b-40ab-b1c1-5693993728cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).