---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the city of Boston police department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Jason DeLeon"
description: "By Representative Tyler of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4142) of Chynah Tyler (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Jason DeLeon 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 4142"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4142 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chynah Tyler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-12"
last_action: "2026-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de138141-3233-40b9-bad6-2776e96fc463"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4142"
source_hash: "3d4eaa147954a1d8939caef9f4cafc4c48f89ddb76591057bc08ba3f017ae87c"
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 4142 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston police department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Jason DeLeon

By Representative Tyler of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4142) of Chynah Tyler (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Jason DeLeon 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/H4142.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chynah Tyler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** 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`
- **2026-01-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-01-05** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-01-27** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-02-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 43 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/de138141-3233-40b9-bad6-2776e96fc463`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).