---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Lincoln to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption program"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2810) [Local Approval Received]. January 18, 2024."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4262"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4262 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a25f117-76f1-4cf9-8d12-2065a49b6f95"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4262"
source_hash: "1311688af862975eca4d0072c557ae473fd92ecc4b3d7036ab9cf43ec2280eb1"
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 4262 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Lincoln to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption program

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 2810) [Local Approval Received]. January 18, 2024.

## 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/H4262.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
- Carmine Lawrence Gentile — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Barrett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** Substituted for H2810
- **2024-01-18** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-01-22** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-02-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-18** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 58 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/4a25f117-76f1-4cf9-8d12-2065a49b6f95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).