---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Marblehead to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Armini of Marblehead and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4225) of Jennifer Balinsky Armini and Brendan P. Crighton (by vote of the town) that the town of Marblehead 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: "194th"
identifier: "H 4225"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4225 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-06-16"
last_action: "2026-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a8bad53-a501-40aa-a268-a73a9577723c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4225"
source_hash: "33887121ae1c7c0a07f44e4d06496145af0d9eea0a91a4cccc46d6d1641d4d8f"
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 4225 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Marblehead to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Armini of Marblehead and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4225) of Jennifer Balinsky Armini and Brendan P. Crighton (by vote of the town) that the town of Marblehead 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/194/H4225.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Balinsky Armini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-16** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Senate concurred
- **2025-07-11** Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-07-14** Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
- **2025-10-28** Hearing scheduled for 11/07/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2026-01-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-02-09** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-01** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-04-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-21** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-04-21** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-04-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-04-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 67 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a8bad53-a501-40aa-a268-a73a9577723c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).