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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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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.]

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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. 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).