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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 Ariel Rodriguez"
description: "By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3844) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ariel Rodriguez as a police officer in the city of Boston notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3844"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3844 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rob Consalvo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-05-11"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/222d978f-a24a-4f8d-b9ff-534299985762"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3844"
source_hash: "c6ce40a934f53289f9566780a90461bbb1e28eca62bb69b74616db3620e81dab"
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 3844 (193rd) — An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Ariel Rodriguez
By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3844) of Rob Consalvo (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ariel Rodriguez 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3844.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Rob Consalvo — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-05-11** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-15** Senate concurred
- **2023-06-02** Hearing scheduled for 06/13/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2023-10-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-11-02** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-12-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-12-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-07** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 54 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/222d978f-a24a-4f8d-b9ff-534299985762`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).