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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Natick to continue the employment of police officer John Haswell"
description: "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.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4686"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4686 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Paul Linsky"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-28"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7434acc2-cdd6-4d8f-97fb-7a7703c80c9e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4686"
source_hash: "5d7e5b7a91f5c56d6c6e66eea7e5bb86f8e8fec97cbf942ca6e8cb144f9b4861"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4686.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7434acc2-cdd6-4d8f-97fb-7a7703c80c9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).