republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4908.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Warwick to continue the employment of David A. Shoemaker as police chief until a maximum age of 70	By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4908) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Warwick be authorized to continue the employment of David A. Shoemaker as police chief of said town notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4908	Massachusetts H 4908 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2024-07-24	2024-11-22	openstates	ocd-bill/a8e661ed-6d4d-43f0-8a80-2e0de827e657	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4908	d917df460487099695957960c3bd84c9da53c3e8ebe751c5dd2c135d1b8a972f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4908 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Warwick to continue the employment of David A. Shoemaker as police chief until a maximum age of 70

By Representative Whipps of Athol and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4908) of Susannah M. Whipps and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Warwick be authorized to continue the employment of David A. Shoemaker as police chief of 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

• Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
• Susannah M. Whipps — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-24 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2024-07-25 Senate concurred
• 2024-08-06 Hearing scheduled for 08/09/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-08-20 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-29 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-08-29 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-29 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-09-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-26 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-11-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-12 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-11-14 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-14 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 243 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8e661ed-6d4d-43f0-8a80-2e0de827e657. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).