---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Newton to amend the income qualifications for a certain tax deferral program"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Newton to amend the income qualifications for a certain tax deferral program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4849"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4849 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-30"
last_action: "2018-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c171fc3e-b2e8-478a-b0b8-11247c6e2381"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4849"
source_hash: "3f069cd812fda0f3329fa748aa355eeea7a2eb178fcfee1c6189258a86a2bcdb"
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 4849 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city of Newton to amend the income qualifications for a certain tax deferral program

## 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/190/H4849.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-30** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2018-07-30** New draft of H4780
- **2018-07-30** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-08-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-08-09** Rules suspended
- **2018-08-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-09-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-24** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-10-29** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-10-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-11-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-11-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 294 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c171fc3e-b2e8-478a-b0b8-11247c6e2381`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).