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| Bill | An Act authorizing the city of Beverly to employ Paul Cotter as Fire Chief beyond the statutory requirement age | By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4488) of Jerald A. Parisella and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Beverly be authorized to employ Paul Cotter as fire chief, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] | us/states/ma | Massachusetts General Court | 190th | H 4488 | Massachusetts H 4488 (190th) |
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enacted | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2018-05-10 | 2018-09-27 | openstates | ocd-bill/c3b50417-42dd-411f-aab4-68bf217bce32 | https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4488 | 606a6bec3f670ff2ccb040c3ee660449cc83247ce28403dc299a4c01c2c7eb4b | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Massachusetts H 4488 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city of Beverly to employ Paul Cotter as Fire Chief beyond the statutory requirement age
By Representative Parisella of Beverly and Senator Lovely, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4488) of Jerald A. Parisella and Joan B. Lovely (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Beverly be authorized to employ Paul Cotter as fire chief, 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.
- Bill Text (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- Jerald A. Parisella — cosponsor (person)
- Joan B. Lovely — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2018-05-10 Referred to the committee on Public Service
referral-committee - 2018-05-14 Senate concurred
- 2018-05-21 Hearing scheduled for 05/23/2018 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM in B-1
- 2018-05-30 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable - 2018-05-31 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- 2018-05-31 Rules suspended
- 2018-05-31 Read second and ordered to a third reading
reading-2 - 2018-07-16 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
reading-3 - 2018-07-17 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- 2018-07-25 Read second and ordered to a third reading
reading-2 - 2018-09-20 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed
reading-3 - 2018-09-20 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
referral-committee - 2018-09-20 House concurred in the Senate amendment
- 2018-09-24 Enacted
passage - 2018-09-24 Enacted and laid before the Governor
passage - 2018-09-27 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 251 of the Acts of 2018
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3b50417-42dd-411f-aab4-68bf217bce32. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).