---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the city of Boston police department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Ryan Cazeau"
description: "By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4740) of William F. MacGregor (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ryan Cazeau 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 4740"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4740 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William F. MacGregor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-11-10"
last_action: "2026-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81512330-1403-479f-81cf-c05fe51e3355"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4740"
source_hash: "457e1a2d3dde0e1c96f6a0b1aa2a9ab78333cecd47e09f8296934e3c33d137a7"
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 4740 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston police department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Ryan Cazeau

By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4740) of William F. MacGregor (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ryan Cazeau 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/H4740.pdf)

## Sponsors

- William F. MacGregor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-11-10** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-11** Senate concurred
- **2026-01-17** Hearing scheduled for 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
- **2026-01-27** Hearing rescheduled to 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-01:15 PM in B-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
- **2026-02-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-03-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, 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 50 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/81512330-1403-479f-81cf-c05fe51e3355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).