---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act correcting the membership date of a certain police officer in the town of North Reading relative to their membership in the Middlesex county retirement system"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill exempting Thomas Romeo from the 75% pension and annuity limitation for police officers hired after January 1, 1988 set forth in Chapter 32, Section 7(2)(a)(ii) of the General Laws (House, No. 4164) [Local Approval Received]. February 22, 2024"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4437"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4437 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-22"
last_action: "2024-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73c9d680-3bb1-44c4-a28c-9c357afde9fe"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4437"
source_hash: "dd498484b3954edb7c2bfb7f256ad99c0d42646d2f01844b582dd2180d4662b2"
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 4437 (193rd) — An Act correcting the membership date of a certain police officer in the town of North Reading relative to their membership in the Middlesex county retirement system

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill exempting Thomas Romeo from the 75% pension and annuity limitation for police officers hired after January 1, 1988 set forth in Chapter 32, Section 7(2)(a)(ii) of the General Laws (House, No. 4164) [Local Approval Received]. February 22, 2024

## 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/H4437.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-22** Substituted for H4164
- **2024-02-22** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-03-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-05-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-05-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-05-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 98 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/73c9d680-3bb1-44c4-a28c-9c357afde9fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).