An Act directing the city of Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for police officers for Jose Ortiz
Filed by Russell E. Holmes · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
H4256 · Bill · docket HD4861
11 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-07-07 | House | Referred to the committee on Public Service |
| 2025-07-10 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-09-03 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 09/10/2025 from 1:00 PM-4:00 PM in A-1 |
| 2025-09-10 | Joint | Hearing rescheduled to 09/10/2025 from 01:00 PM-01:30 PM in A-1 and Virtual. Hearing updated to New End Time |
| 2025-12-29 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2026-01-20 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2026-01-20 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-01-20 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-02-05 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-02-09 | Senate | Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session |
| 2026-02-26 | Senate | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
1 committee vote
Public Service (J) · 2025-12-08 16:02 · Favorable report
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2025-09-10 | Public Service (J) | A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.