---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Paul O'Brien"
description: "By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4592) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Paul O'Brien a police officer notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4592"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4592 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rob Consalvo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-29"
last_action: "2024-12-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ddc4698-b5dd-4293-8ea0-27a0e16ecfdf"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4592"
source_hash: "a65ccb416cf595c02f0db7ec0122d987944a9cedcbe620999e676a279e8c0b71"
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 4592 (193rd) — An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Paul O'Brien

By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4592) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Paul O'Brien a police officer 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/H4592.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Rob Consalvo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-29** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02** Senate concurred
- **2024-05-10** Hearing scheduled for 05/14/2024 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2024-06-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-07-01** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-18** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-19** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-07-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-12-02** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-02** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 257 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/2ddc4698-b5dd-4293-8ea0-27a0e16ecfdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).