---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield"
description: "An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4822"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4822 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-08"
last_action: "2024-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25da4472-6b9e-45c1-b0d9-7cd8eeb0c27b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4822"
source_hash: "d0bef7037f0e783d9c367a0010b8f701fa503b3d98d31d5cb698ad45011f1603"
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 4822 (193rd) — An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield

## 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/H4822.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
- Adam Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
- Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
- Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-08** Reported from the committee on Public Service
- **2024-07-08** New draft of H4238
- **2024-07-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-08-05** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-09-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-11-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-11-21** Read third `reading-3`
- **2024-11-21** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2984 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-11-21** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-11-22** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-12-09** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-12-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 268 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/25da4472-6b9e-45c1-b0d9-7cd8eeb0c27b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).