---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Harvard to establish a cap on property taxes for means tested senior citizens"
description: "Text of an amendment substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3734). July 12, 2022."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5019"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5019 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-07-12"
last_action: "2022-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c73e12b-9eff-48ab-89ea-55078013b665"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5019"
source_hash: "66d8240b4db79b6baea1960f627da9042762d63b58e738bf824c92db862e3c07"
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 5019 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Harvard to establish a cap on property taxes for means tested senior citizens

Text of an amendment substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3734). July 12, 2022.

## 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/H5019.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Danillo A. Sena — cosponsor (person)
- James B. Eldridge — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-12** Substituted for H3734
- **2022-07-12** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-07-13** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-21** 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 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 190 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/7c73e12b-9eff-48ab-89ea-55078013b665`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).