---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2515) of Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Easton 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: "S 2515"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2515 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter F. Timilty"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-30"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f03d4086-72ab-4118-8f28-d68e6459514a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2515"
source_hash: "0377c9e088e8183bb777ccc785f4301485ff3b271d30be5303fd2138e1a14cf7"
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 S 2515 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2515) of Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Easton 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/S2515.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-30** Rules suspended
- **2023-11-30** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-01** House concurred
- **2024-01-04** Hearing scheduled for 01/09/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2024-01-22** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-02-12** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-03-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-04-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-04-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-05-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 102 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/f03d4086-72ab-4118-8f28-d68e6459514a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).