republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4212.md

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Bill	An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Terrance Joseph Williams	By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4212) of Christopher J. Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Terrance Joseph Williams a police officer in said city, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4212	Massachusetts H 4212 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Christopher J. Worrell	1	14	0	2023-12-11	2024-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/80fcc4a6-bd15-45fe-bcdb-7875434bf826	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4212	5a4aae342e5b7aed1f56af0164fb73c011df4463d7a14a0db43f7e4fd8c02578	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4212 (193rd) — An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Terrance Joseph Williams

By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4212) of Christopher J. Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Terrance Joseph Williams a police officer in said city, 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

• Christopher J. Worrell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-11 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2023-12-14 Senate concurred
• 2024-01-11 Hearing scheduled for 01/16/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-03-18 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-16 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-04-16 Rules suspended
• 2024-04-16 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-13 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-09-05 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-09-05 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-09 Enacted passage
• 2024-09-09 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-11 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 200 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80fcc4a6-bd15-45fe-bcdb-7875434bf826. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).