republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4686.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Natick to continue the employment of police officer John Haswell	By Representative Linsky of Natick, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4686) of David Paul Linsky (by vote of the town) that the town of Natick be authorized to continue the employment of police officer John Haswell, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4686	Massachusetts H 4686 (193rd)	bill		enacted	David Paul Linsky	1	14	0	2024-05-28	2024-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7434acc2-cdd6-4d8f-97fb-7a7703c80c9e	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4686	5d7e5b7a91f5c56d6c6e66eea7e5bb86f8e8fec97cbf942ca6e8cb144f9b4861	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4686 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Natick to continue the employment of police officer John Haswell

By Representative Linsky of Natick, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4686) of David Paul Linsky (by vote of the town) that the town of Natick be authorized to continue the employment of police officer John Haswell, 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

• David Paul Linsky — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-28 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2024-05-30 Senate concurred
• 2024-06-04 Hearing scheduled for 06/07/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-07-03 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-11 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-07-11 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-11 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-12 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-15 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-09-30 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-09-30 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-10-03 Enacted passage
• 2024-10-03 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-10-09 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 223 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7434acc2-cdd6-4d8f-97fb-7a7703c80c9e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).