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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Wilfrid Decossa"
description: "By Representative Fluker Oakley of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2520) of Brandy Fluker Oakley (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to authorizing the city of Boston to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Wilfrid Decossa. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 2520"
citation: "Massachusetts H 2520 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandy Fluker Oakley"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2684d7ee-d3e2-45ec-bece-b72d6414ba3d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2520"
source_hash: "b46cba3eee613f46bb94f26d58118cd7d0c915cfa49c717b2d6ba2ebe2fe2539"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 2520 (193rd) — An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Wilfrid Decossa
By Representative Fluker Oakley of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2520) of Brandy Fluker Oakley (with the approval of the mayor and city council) relative to authorizing the city of Boston to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Wilfrid Decossa. 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H2520.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Brandy Fluker Oakley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Senate concurred
- **2023-03-17** Hearing scheduled for 03/21/2023 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-03-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-03-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-03-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Rules suspended
- **2023-03-27** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-1, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-03-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2023-03-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2023-03-31** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 3 of the Acts of 2023 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2684d7ee-d3e2-45ec-bece-b72d6414ba3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).