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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Billerica to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer	By Representative Lombardo of Billerica and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4632) of Marc T. Lombardo and Cindy F. Friedman (by vote of the town) that the town of Billerica be authorized to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer in said town. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4632	Massachusetts H 4632 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2025-10-20	2026-01-29	openstates	ocd-bill/77f3b106-ed38-4b20-b510-4d10199a9da4	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4632	9da1e97475c637556b8f62b7761ca2a08b2c9f87a9b9ec216e53f4e52b9e092c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4632 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Billerica to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer

By Representative Lombardo of Billerica and Senator Friedman, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4632) of Marc T. Lombardo and Cindy F. Friedman (by vote of the town) that the town of Billerica be authorized to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of police officer in said town. 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

• Cindy F. Friedman — cosponsor (person)
• Marc T. Lombardo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-10-20 Referred to the committee on Public Service referral-committee
• 2025-10-23 Senate concurred
• 2025-11-20 Hearing scheduled for 11/20/2025 from 05:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2025-12-11 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-12-15 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-12-15 Rules suspended
• 2025-12-15 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-12-24 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-12-29 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2026-01-15 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2026-01-15 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2026-01-20 Enacted passage
• 2026-01-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-01-29 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 7 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77f3b106-ed38-4b20-b510-4d10199a9da4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).