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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing Nikos Sofronas to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement"
description: "By Ms. DiZoglio, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1697) of Diana DiZoglio (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize Nikos Sofronas to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 1697"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1697 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diana DiZoglio"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2022-11-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80ac7a92-7406-4502-b8a8-9e460a89b401"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1697"
source_hash: "027b37c4196b9f992fdbdf60b66e66ea9c0e06e807ee388b8104066c9cddb69f"
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 S 1697 (192nd) — An Act authorizing Nikos Sofronas to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill notwithstanding the maximum age requirement
By Ms. DiZoglio, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1697) of Diana DiZoglio (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize Nikos Sofronas to take the civil service examination for the position of firefighter in the city of Haverhill 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/192/S1697.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Diana DiZoglio — primary (person)
- Christina A. Minicucci — 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** House concurred
- **2021-05-07** Hearing scheduled for 05/19/2021 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-05-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-11** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-07-20** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-11-23** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 281 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80ac7a92-7406-4502-b8a8-9e460a89b401`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).