---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to make permanent a senior means tested property tax exemption in Concord"
description: "By Representative Gouveia of Acton and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3731) of Tami L. Gouveia and Michael J. Barrett (by vote of the town) for legislation to make permanent a senior means tested property tax exemption in the town of Concord. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3731"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3731 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-06"
last_action: "2022-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d669226-6788-4333-85f5-f7fbc330926b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3731"
source_hash: "577266c0e3218ce0b22e2af248b08b766d8b4c490d6c0f73947904002681d4ab"
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 3731 (192nd) — An Act to make permanent a senior means tested property tax exemption in Concord

By Representative Gouveia of Acton and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3731) of Tami L. Gouveia and Michael J. Barrett (by vote of the town) for legislation to make permanent a senior means tested property tax exemption in the town of Concord. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/192/H3731.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael J. Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Tami L. Gouveia — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-06** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-06** Senate concurred
- **2021-07-19** Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2021 from 03:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2022-03-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-05-02** Rules suspended
- **2022-05-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-05-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-05-19** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-11** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 193 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d669226-6788-4333-85f5-f7fbc330926b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).