republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4405.md

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Bill	An Act directing the town of Burlington Fire Department to waive the maximum age requirement for firefighter for Ryan DeCoste	By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4405) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) that the town of Burlington be authorized to appoint Ryan DeCoste as a firefighter in said town, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4405	Massachusetts H 4405 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Kenneth I. Gordon	1	14	0	2024-02-15	2024-07-02	openstates	ocd-bill/ff229d54-21ab-46be-a88d-a8d124de42d8	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4405	1ca23e94776d187d330857962ffe6280ab2b651a3c5c8dff4cb26232b61c4840	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4405 (193rd) — An Act directing the town of Burlington Fire Department to waive the maximum age requirement for firefighter for Ryan DeCoste

By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4405) of Kenneth I. Gordon (by vote of the town) that the town of Burlington be authorized to appoint Ryan DeCoste as a firefighter in said town, 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

• Kenneth I. Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Senate concurred
• 2024-02-23 Hearing scheduled for 03/04/2024 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
• 2024-04-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-02 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-05-02 Rules suspended
• 2024-05-02 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-28 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-06-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-06-27 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 Enacted passage
• 2024-06-27 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-07-02 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 125 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff229d54-21ab-46be-a88d-a8d124de42d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).