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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 Ryan Cazeau"
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description: "By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4740) of William F. MacGregor (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ryan Cazeau as a police officer in the city of Boston, 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: "194th"
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identifier: "H 4740"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4740 (194th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["William F. MacGregor"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 15
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2025-11-10"
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last_action: "2026-03-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81512330-1403-479f-81cf-c05fe51e3355"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4740"
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source_hash: "457e1a2d3dde0e1c96f6a0b1aa2a9ab78333cecd47e09f8296934e3c33d137a7"
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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 4740 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston police department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Ryan Cazeau
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By Representative MacGregor of Boston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4740) of William F. MacGregor (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the appointment of Ryan Cazeau as a police officer in the city of Boston, 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/194/H4740.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- William F. MacGregor — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-11-10** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
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- **2025-12-11** Senate concurred
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- **2026-01-17** Hearing scheduled for 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
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- **2026-01-27** Hearing rescheduled to 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-01:15 PM in B-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time
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- **2026-02-09** 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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- **2026-02-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2026-02-19** Rules suspended
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- **2026-02-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-03-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
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- **2026-03-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2026-03-26** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
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- **2026-03-30** Enacted `passage`
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- **2026-03-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2026-03-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 50 of the Acts of 2026 `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/81512330-1403-479f-81cf-c05fe51e3355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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