republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-4572.md

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Bill	An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Doumy Pamera	By Representative Montaño of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4572) of Samantha Montaño (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Doumy Pamera as a police officer in the city of Boston, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4572	Massachusetts H 4572 (194th)	bill		enacted	Samantha Montaño	1	12	0	2025-09-29	2026-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/27e00fde-d012-47d2-bd65-12be64936b66	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4572	397002f147fa5ae5e92915a5c7bee3b478b57b1e0fec4a66a12caa255621379b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4572 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Doumy Pamera

By Representative Montaño of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4572) of Samantha Montaño (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Doumy Pamera as a police officer in the city of Boston, 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

• Samantha Montaño — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-09-29 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2025-10-02 Senate concurred
• 2025-11-20 Hearing scheduled for 11/20/2025 from 05:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2026-02-02 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2026-03-02 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2026-03-02 Rules suspended
• 2026-03-02 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2026-03-23 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2026-03-26 Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3
• 2026-03-30 Enacted passage
• 2026-03-30 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-03-30 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 51 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27e00fde-d012-47d2-bd65-12be64936b66. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).