---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose and Senator Lewis, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3766) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Jason M. Lewis (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3766"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3766 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-05-10"
last_action: "2022-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16b48591-bbd0-4ed7-b453-63fe388d663e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3766"
source_hash: "848fede444a5b8beb328ccf2df68febd772cece3d0a054fcaf8383800baf3fd5"
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 3766 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose and Senator Lewis, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3766) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian and Jason M. Lewis (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. 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/H3766.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-05-10** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-13** 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`
- **2022-05-16** 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
- **2022-06-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-06-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-06-27** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-07-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 100 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/16b48591-bbd0-4ed7-b453-63fe388d663e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).