---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Carlisle to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Representative Cataldo of Concord, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4560) of Simon Cataldo (by vote of the town) that the town of Carlisle be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4560"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4560 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon Cataldo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-18"
last_action: "2024-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff81b30d-a828-4acd-b0ed-4dbbac97149e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4560"
source_hash: "190966ff5cd162409e353d8cde2eb2b993d7e559a98ef55894ce0d27fde75974"
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 4560 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Carlisle to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Cataldo of Concord, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4560) of Simon Cataldo (by vote of the town) that the town of Carlisle be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. 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/H4560.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Simon Cataldo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-18** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Senate concurred
- **2024-05-10** Hearing scheduled for 05/15/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-05-28** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-06-24** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-07-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-12-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-12** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 263 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/ff81b30d-a828-4acd-b0ed-4dbbac97149e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).