republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-3916.md

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Bill	An Act to authorize the city of Westfield to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer	By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3916) of Kelly W. Pease (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Westfield be authorized to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer in said city. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 3916	Massachusetts H 3916 (194th)	bill		enacted	Kelly W. Pease	1	15	0	2025-03-17	2025-12-22	openstates	ocd-bill/f909e65c-bf4e-40a1-ac5a-f95b3206c1ff	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3916	06d7402f57099b76627eb4cf78f50d64ecb066f2a5d62687cfc974b76b21fbda	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3916 (194th) — An Act to authorize the city of Westfield to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer

By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3916) of Kelly W. Pease (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Westfield be authorized to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer in said city. 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

• Kelly W. Pease — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-17 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Senate concurred
• 2025-05-08 Hearing scheduled for 05/12/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
• 2025-08-25 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-09-29 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
• 2025-09-29 Rules suspended
• 2025-09-29 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-10-23 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-10-27 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-11-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-12-08 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-12-08 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-12-11 Enacted passage
• 2025-12-11 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-12-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 89 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f909e65c-bf4e-40a1-ac5a-f95b3206c1ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).