Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Public Service

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Start Time:

1:00 PM

Location:

B-2 and Virtual

Event Description

Civil Service, Earning Limits, Age exemptions

Please be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the agreement of the Chairs.

All matters filed in the House that are listed above are required to be reported on by November 17, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly on the Joint Committee on Public Service page.

At the discretion of the Chairs and per committee rules, written testimony received by the committee will be made publicly available. The committee may limit availability or redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information, information about minors, or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness or safety of the testifier or others.

Written testimony can be submitted via email to Donna.LoConte@masenate.gov or Seda.korroch@mahouse.gov or physically mailed to the Senate Chair. Please submit by Wednesday, October 1, at 5:00pm:

Chair Michael Brady

JOINT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SERVICE

ATTN: Donna LoConte

24 BEACON ST ROOM 413A

BOSTON MA 02133

In-person oral testimony and remote testimony, Please email Donna.loconte@masenate.gov. Deadline to sign up is Monday, September 15, 2025, at 5:00pm.

For those testifying remotely, you will receive a Microsoft Teams link with more information prior to the start of the hearing.

This hearing will be chaired by Senator Michael Brady. If you have any questions regarding the hearing, legislation, format of the hearing or reasonable accommodations required to ensure people with disabilities can participate fully in the committee process, please email: Donna LoConte (Donna.loconte@masenate.gov). Senator Brady’s office can be reached via telephone: (617) 722-1200.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Public Service - 9-17-2025	9/17/2025 1:00 PM	00:56:11

Civil Service, Earning limits, Age exemptions 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.2755	An Act relative to post retirement earnings and hours limitations for certain professional services	David Biele
H.2760	An Act relative to non-membership service in public safety	Natalie M. Blais
H.2791	An Act relative to post-retirement earnings	Mark J. Cusack
H.2812	An Act to provide fair and affordable public retiree benefits	Daniel M. Donahue
H.2828	An Act relative to expanding the hiring radius for police departments	Christopher Richard Flanagan
H.2855	An Act to exempt the Executive Director of the Municipal Police Training Committee from earnings limitations	Richard M. Haggerty
H.2859	An Act establishing job permanency for MADOC instructors	James K. Hawkins
H.2867	An Act to clarify civil service information-sharing	Natalie M. Higgins
H.2884	An Act relative to veteran inclusion	Meghan K. Kilcoyne
H.2903	An Act relative to retiree work hours and pay limits	Marc T. Lombardo
H.2906	An Act increasing the age of retirement for uniformed public safety personnel in designated seasonal communities	Hadley Luddy
H.2919	An Act expanding access to the civil service examination	Joan Meschino
H.2925	An Act relative to the human resource division’s civil service unit	Tram T. Nguyen
H.2934	Resolve authorizing the study of cost of living increases for state police retirees	Edward R. Philips
H.2945	An Act relative to retired teachers supporting public education	Sean Reid
H.2952	An Act relative to work hours for state retirees	David Allen Robertson
H.2959	An Act relative to exemptions for civil service laws	Margaret R. Scarsdale
H.2966	An Act relative to capping earning in retirement	Alan Silvia
H.2973	An Act relating to fair compensation for bilingual police officers	Priscila S. Sousa
H.2995	An Act to amend the training requirement for the fire department cadet program in Boston	Christopher J. Worrell
H.3902	An Act authorizing the town of Stoughton to exempt all Stoughton police officers at all ranks from civil service	Edward R. Philips
H.3929	An Act relative to the maximum age requirement for original appointment as a police officer for the city of Worcester	James J. O'Day
H.4079	An Act relative to public retirees and reforming post-retirement employment and earnings limits	Kip A. Diggs
H.4093	An Act relative to raising the age requirement for entrance to the Boston Police Academy	Adrian C. Madaro
H.4177	An Act exempting certain positions of the police department in the town of Lancaster from the civil service law	Meghan K. Kilcoyne
H.4213	An Act relative to the continued employment of firefighters in the town of Egremont	Leigh Davis
H.4214	An Act relative to the appointment of the police chief in the city of Fall River	Carole A. Fiola
H.4268	An Act to authorize the Wrentham Select Board to remove the position of lieutenant of the town of Wrentham Police Department from the requirements of M.G.L. Ch. 31	Marcus S. Vaughn
H.4299	An Act exempting the position of Fire Chief in the city of Holyoke from the provisions of the civil service law	Patricia A. Duffy
H.4315	An Act authorizing the City of Westfield to establish an age limit for original appointment to the position of firefighter	Kelly W. Pease
S.1793	An Act relative to the Human Resources Division's civil service unit	Michael D. Brady
S.1795	An Act relative to veteran inclusion	Michael D. Brady
S.1826	An Act eliminating post-retirement earnings restrictions for police detail work	Kelly A. Dooner
S.1839	An Act relative to post-retirement earnings of public retirees	Ryan C. Fattman
S.1893	An Act relative to raising the entrance age of police officers	Patrick M. O'Connor
S.1896	An Act relative to firefighter training	Jacob R. Oliveira
S.2582	An Act exempting certain positions in the city of Taunton from civil service status	Kelly A. Dooner

Present (6)

Daniel J. Ryan (HOU)

James C. Arena-DeRosa (HOU)

David F. DeCoste (HOU)

Rodney M. Elliott (HOU)

Todd M. Smola (HOU)

Joshua Tarsky (HOU)

Absent (5)

Colleen M. Garry (HOU)
*

Natalie M. Higgins (HOU)
*

John Francis Moran (HOU)
*

David Allen Robertson (HOU)
*

Alan Silvia (HOU)
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