---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the City of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3979) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said city. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 3979"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3979 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kate Lipper-Garabedian"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f41447ac-d9c9-4556-bfe3-af739ed6f265"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3979"
source_hash: "c4c677dd3b0cad8a798d8a103553f5b6c93bc2b5fec1519d5b7ebaf09783edb5"
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 3979 (194th) — An Act authorizing the City of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3979) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said city. 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/194/H3979.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kate Lipper-Garabedian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-31** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Senate concurred
- **2025-05-08** Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
- **2025-07-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-08-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-08-14** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-09-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-09-15** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-09-17** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-09-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 35 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f41447ac-d9c9-4556-bfe3-af739ed6f265`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).