---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Truro to establish a program to reduce property tax liability in exchange for volunteer services for persons with disabilities"
description: "By Representative Peake of Provincetown and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3735) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Truro be authorized to establish a program to reduce property tax liability in exchange for volunteer services for persons with disabilities. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3735"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3735 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-04-06"
last_action: "2024-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8b12e5b-9880-4e1a-a11e-57c169d7b75f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3735"
source_hash: "06804718e59ffd8b7381d54ee6ce70d720e03d84fa6fc71b8062e52273f1da68"
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 3735 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Truro to establish a program to reduce property tax liability in exchange for volunteer services for persons with disabilities

By Representative Peake of Provincetown and Senator Cyr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3735) of Sarah K. Peake and Julian Cyr (by vote of the town) that the town of Truro be authorized to establish a program to reduce property tax liability in exchange for volunteer services for persons with disabilities. 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/193/H3735.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah K. Peake — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-06** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred
- **2023-07-17** Hearing scheduled for 07/25/2023 from 10:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-11-06** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-07** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-04** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-09-19** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-09-19** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-10-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 221 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/f8b12e5b-9880-4e1a-a11e-57c169d7b75f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).