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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 officer Cherell Mellace"
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description: "By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1907) of Michael F. Rush (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to direct the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officer Cherell Mellace. 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: "S 1907"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 1907 (194th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Michael F. Rush"]
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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: "2025-02-27"
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last_action: "2026-02-18"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8fabe2a-a9e6-4ebb-b94b-c4ae8364e118"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1907"
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source_hash: "e3de46198ebad3482d81128a092eb03592f936b6ef65c686853213467c05265f"
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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 S 1907 (194th) — An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officer Cherell Mellace
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By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1907) of Michael F. Rush (with the approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to direct the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officer Cherell Mellace. 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/S1907.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Michael F. Rush — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-27** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-27** House concurred
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- **2025-05-01** Hearing scheduled for 05/07/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
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- **2025-10-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-11-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-12-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2025-12-18** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-12-22** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-22** Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (under the last sentence of Rule 7A) for a second reading
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- **2026-01-22** Rules suspended
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- **2026-01-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-02-09** Enacted `passage`
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- **2026-02-09** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 27 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/d8fabe2a-a9e6-4ebb-b94b-c4ae8364e118`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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