---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act increasing the exemption for residential property in the town of Provincetown"
description: "An Act increasing the exemption for residential property in the town of Provincetown"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3860"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3860 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-08-03"
last_action: "2018-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/666d9394-9a96-4190-bb53-038eb177c003"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3860"
source_hash: "e87322e54f980bf442d98e64c1ab8c50f82290d5246aa5392b257f2aa29fa735"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3860 (190th) — An Act increasing the exemption for residential property in the town of Provincetown

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3860.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-08-03** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2017-08-03** New draft of H2639
- **2017-08-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-08-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-10** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-12** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-10-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-02-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-02-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 25 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/666d9394-9a96-4190-bb53-038eb177c003`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).