---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3826) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Holliston 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: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3826"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3826 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James C. Arena-DeRosa"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-05-04"
last_action: "2024-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb5c67c1-e44f-4315-ab29-cda2ee144652"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3826"
source_hash: "9d219e5e8539a1ef5719369c0df004d5565e35d9d9b895229360557fe8e0c5a7"
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 3826 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Arena-DeRosa of Holliston, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3826) of James C. Arena-DeRosa (by vote of the town) that the town of Holliston 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/193/H3826.pdf)

## Sponsors

- James C. Arena-DeRosa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-04** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-08** Senate concurred
- **2023-07-17** Hearing scheduled for 07/25/2023 from 10:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-11-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-07** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-12-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-12-26** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-05-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-05-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-05-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 100 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb5c67c1-e44f-4315-ab29-cda2ee144652`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).