---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing a senior property tax deferral program in the city of Taunton"
description: "Senate, December 4, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Pacheco) for the Senate Bill establishing a senior property tax deferral program in the city of Taunton (Senate, No. 2368)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2517"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2517 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-04"
last_action: "2024-01-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d80c02-b640-4af5-b0e7-d2f403610862"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2517"
source_hash: "740bff7482027e864c529881a874e28a7471b20722ec794caae71979451861c3"
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 2517 (193rd) — An Act establishing a senior property tax deferral program in the city of Taunton

Senate, December 4, 2023 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Pacheco) for the Senate Bill establishing a senior property tax deferral program in the city of Taunton (Senate, No. 2368).

## 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/S2517.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia A. Haddad — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-04** Recommended new draft (Pacheco) for S2368
- **2023-12-04** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-04** Substituted for S2368
- **2023-12-04** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2023-12-07** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2023-12-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-10** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-01-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-01-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 3 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/29d80c02-b640-4af5-b0e7-d2f403610862`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).