---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the town of Burlington Fire Department to waive the maximum age requirement for firefighter for Ryan DeCoste"
description: "By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4405) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) that the town of Burlington be authorized to appoint Ryan DeCoste as a firefighter in said town, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4405"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4405 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kenneth I. Gordon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff229d54-21ab-46be-a88d-a8d124de42d8"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4405"
source_hash: "1ca23e94776d187d330857962ffe6280ab2b651a3c5c8dff4cb26232b61c4840"
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 4405 (193rd) — An Act directing the town of Burlington Fire Department to waive the maximum age requirement for firefighter for Ryan DeCoste

By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4405) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) that the town of Burlington be authorized to appoint Ryan DeCoste as a firefighter in said town, 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/193/H4405.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kenneth I. Gordon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Senate concurred
- **2024-02-23** Hearing scheduled for 03/04/2024 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2024-04-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-05-02** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-28** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-06-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-06-27** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-06-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 125 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/ff229d54-21ab-46be-a88d-a8d124de42d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).