---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Andover to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2512) of Barry R. Finegold and Frank A. Moran (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Andover 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: "S 2512"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2512 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry R. Finegold"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-08-19"
last_action: "2022-09-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67ca6cbc-cdc3-44ba-ad4d-0857771af465"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2512"
source_hash: "523e7b5f024bef5c8289f6f55a92d0779433429490994f1ac6aaef86a2531ddb"
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 2512 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Andover to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2512) of Barry R. Finegold and Frank A. Moran (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Andover 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/S2512.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barry R. Finegold — primary (person)
- Frank A. Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-08-19** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-19** House concurred
- **2021-10-13** Hearing scheduled for 10/18/2021 from 10:00 AM-05:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-02-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-14** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-18** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 210 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/67ca6cbc-cdc3-44ba-ad4d-0857771af465`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).