republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4822.md

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Bill	An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield	An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4822	Massachusetts H 4822 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	17	0	2024-07-08	2024-12-19	openstates	ocd-bill/25da4472-6b9e-45c1-b0d9-7cd8eeb0c27b	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4822	d0bef7037f0e783d9c367a0010b8f701fa503b3d98d31d5cb698ad45011f1603	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4822 (193rd) — An Act increasing the age limit for the appointment of special police officers in the city of Springfield

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Joint Committee on Public Service — primary (organization)
• Adam Gomez — cosponsor (person)
• Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
• Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
• Bud L. Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
• Kay Khan — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-08 Reported from the committee on Public Service
• 2024-07-08 New draft of H4238
• 2024-07-08 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-08-05 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-05 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-09-03 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-09 Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-11-21 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-21 Read third reading-3
• 2024-11-21 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2984 amendment-passage
• 2024-11-21 Passed to be engrossed passage
• 2024-11-22 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-12-09 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-12-12 Enacted passage
• 2024-12-12 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-12-19 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 268 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25da4472-6b9e-45c1-b0d9-7cd8eeb0c27b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).