---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wakefield to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Wakefield to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4475"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4475 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-27"
last_action: "2020-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3336f217-3baa-427b-ba34-890bac80bbb2"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4475"
source_hash: "0c18b9fedf187bfbf94be638cbccdb1a71ff347dfda7a0d2e78d345c10b529e7"
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 4475 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Wakefield to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

## 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/191/H4475.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)
- Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Brodeur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-27** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2020-02-27** New draft of H3857
- **2020-02-27** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-04-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-04-21** Rules suspended
- **2020-04-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-11** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-06-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-06-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 97 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3336f217-3baa-427b-ba34-890bac80bbb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).