An Act authorizing Bradford G. Merkel to take the state police examination notwithstanding the maximum age requirement
Filed by Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr. · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
H5189 · Bill · docket HD5296
12 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-11-03 | House | Referred to the committee on House Rules |
| 2026-02-26 | House | Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Public Service |
| 2026-03-02 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2026-04-02 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 04/14/2026 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2 |
| 2026-04-07 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 04/14/2026 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2 |
| 2026-04-14 | Joint | Hearing rescheduled to 04/14/2026 from 02:00 PM-02:20 PM in A-2 and Virtual. Hearing updated to New End Time |
| 2026-05-11 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2026-05-28 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2026-05-28 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2026-05-28 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2026-06-25 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2026-07-01 | Senate | Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules |
1 committee vote
Public Service (J) · 2026-05-08 16:42 · 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 |
|---|
| 2026-04-14 | Public Service (J) | A-2, 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.