---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing a tax exemption for certain qualifying real estate in the town of Hamilton"
description: "By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1362) of Bruce E. Tarr and Bradford Hill (by vote of the town) for legislation to provide a tax exemption for certain qualifying real estate in the town of Hamilton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local approval received]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 1362"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1362 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-29"
last_action: "2021-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88e933ef-877d-45c9-923f-e9a8e0708dad"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S1362"
source_hash: "2afd5e58a2e4140ddb28050dc584732906f38f73581b23c1f22442efd7b5d1fa"
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 S 1362 (192nd) — An Act providing a tax exemption for certain qualifying real estate in the town of Hamilton

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1362) of Bruce E. Tarr and Bradford Hill (by vote of the town) for legislation to provide a tax exemption for certain qualifying real estate in the town of Hamilton. Municipalities and Regional Government. [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/S1362.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Bradford Hill — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-29** Referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** House concurred
- **2021-06-03** Hearing scheduled for 06/08/2021 from 11:00 AM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-06-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-09-20** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-09-20** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-10-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-10-07** Rules suspended
- **2021-10-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-12-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-12-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 112 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88e933ef-877d-45c9-923f-e9a8e0708dad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).