---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Shutesbury to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4559) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Shutesbury 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 4559"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4559 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-17"
last_action: "2022-11-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef92bf11-2492-427e-b754-995245fa63de"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4559"
source_hash: "8b64dac41201e707859afb857fc2d2b3b988693ad7ea7e8306ef3af79fe7f8ab"
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 4559 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Shutesbury to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Blais of Sunderland and Senator Comerford, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4559) of Natalie M. Blais and Joanne M. Comerford (by vote of the town) that the town of Shutesbury 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/H4559.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-17** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-21** Senate concurred
- **2022-04-11** Hearing scheduled for 04/15/2022 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2022-04-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-06-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-26** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-10-27** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-10-27** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-10-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-10-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-07** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 259 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/ef92bf11-2492-427e-b754-995245fa63de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).