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Bill An Act allowing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers By Mrs. Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2714) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Donald H. Wong (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 192nd H 2714 Massachusetts H 2714 (192nd)
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Massachusetts H 2714 (192nd) — An Act allowing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers

By Mrs. Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2714) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Donald H. Wong (by vote of the town) relative to authorizing the town of Wakefield to employ retired police officers as special police officers. 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

Sponsors

  • Kate Lipper-Garabedian — primary (person)
  • Donald H. Wong — cosponsor (person)
  • Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-03-29 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
  • 2021-03-29 Senate concurred
  • 2021-05-07 Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
  • 2021-06-01 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2021-06-09 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2021-06-09 Rules suspended
  • 2021-06-09 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2021-07-08 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2021-07-12 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2021-08-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2021-08-12 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2021-08-16 Enacted passage
  • 2021-08-16 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2021-08-20 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 42 of the Acts of 2021 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0daee36-ae7a-49c0-a668-90bd3a572de5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).