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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Terrance Joseph Williams"
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description: "By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4212) of Christopher J. Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Terrance Joseph Williams a police officer in said city, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "193rd"
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identifier: "H 4212"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4212 (193rd)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Christopher J. Worrell"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2023-12-11"
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last_action: "2024-09-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80fcc4a6-bd15-45fe-bcdb-7875434bf826"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4212"
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source_hash: "5a4aae342e5b7aed1f56af0164fb73c011df4463d7a14a0db43f7e4fd8c02578"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4212 (193rd) — An Act directing the City of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Terrance Joseph Williams
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By Representative Worrell of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4212) of Christopher J. Worrell (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Boston be authorized to appoint Terrance Joseph Williams a police officer in said city, notwithstanding the maximum age requirement. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4212.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Christopher J. Worrell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-12-11** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
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- **2023-12-14** Senate concurred
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- **2024-01-11** Hearing scheduled for 01/16/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
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- **2024-03-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2024-04-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2024-04-16** Rules suspended
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- **2024-04-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2024-05-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-05-16** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2024-09-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2024-09-05** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2024-09-09** Enacted `passage`
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- **2024-09-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2024-09-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 200 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80fcc4a6-bd15-45fe-bcdb-7875434bf826`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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