---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Mendon to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Mr. Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3901) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) that the town of Mendon be authorized to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said town. Revenue.[Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3901"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3901 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian W. Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-17"
last_action: "2022-10-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65ed9eb2-9d21-4085-84d2-c7e35d6f0c41"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3901"
source_hash: "6e261bb1cd48869a4ebe2eba9817941e4631978fe8a86710e16fbbc65bccb663"
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 3901 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Mendon to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Mr. Murray of Milford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3901) of Brian W. Murray (by vote of the town) that the town of Mendon be authorized to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said town. 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/H3901.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brian W. Murray — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-17** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** Senate concurred
- **2021-10-13** Hearing scheduled for 10/18/2021 from 10:00 AM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-03-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-05-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-06-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-10-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-10-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 241 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/65ed9eb2-9d21-4085-84d2-c7e35d6f0c41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).