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Bill An Act exempting the certain individual from the age restrictions for police officers By Representative Vaughn of Wrentham and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4041) of Marcus S. Vaughn and Rebecca L. Rausch (by vote of the town) that the town of Wrentham be authorized to continue the employment of police chief William McGrath, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 193rd H 4041 Massachusetts H 4041 (193rd)
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Massachusetts H 4041 (193rd) — An Act exempting the certain individual from the age restrictions for police officers

By Representative Vaughn of Wrentham and Senator Rausch, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4041) of Marcus S. Vaughn and Rebecca L. Rausch (by vote of the town) that the town of Wrentham be authorized to continue the employment of police chief William McGrath, 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

Sponsors

  • Marcus S. Vaughn — cosponsor (person)
  • Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-08-03 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
  • 2023-08-07 Senate concurred
  • 2023-08-09 Hearing scheduled for 08/14/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
  • 2023-11-27 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2023-12-26 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2023-12-26 Rules suspended
  • 2023-12-26 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2024-01-25 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2024-01-29 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2024-02-29 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2024-06-10 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2024-06-10 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
  • 2024-06-12 Enacted passage
  • 2024-06-13 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2024-06-18 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 117 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0de7dfae-0535-49f8-a4b1-35f16c137cc4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).