diff --git a/jstests/change_streams/required_as_first_stage.js b/jstests/change_streams/required_as_first_stage.js
index 3920c9324c7..756f41b1708 100644
--- a/jstests/change_streams/required_as_first_stage.js
+++ b/jstests/change_streams/required_as_first_stage.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // The passthrough logic that bundles operations into transactions needs to be able identify change
 // stream aggregations so as to avoid running them in a transaction, but that code would fail to
 // recognize the intentionally malformed aggergations that we test here.
-// @tags: [change_stream_does_not_expect_txns]
+// @tags: [change_stream_does_not_expect_txns, requires_fcv_44]
 (function() {
 "use strict";