---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act An Act to provide for the continuance of the town of Hingham's senior means-tested property tax exemption"
description: "Senate, January 11, 2024 - Substituted as a new draft (Senator O'Connor) for the Senate Bill to amend the provisions of Chapter 381 of the Acts of 2020 to continue the town of Hingham senior means-tested property tax exemption (Senate, No. 2407)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2553"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2553 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patrick M. O'Connor"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faf02ad9-bb79-46cf-be98-e5ee5c35e008"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2553"
source_hash: "7d61089567b937c412ebdc17a68d60f673630d737a38ea7b505b8211300886fb"
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 2553 (193rd) — An Act An Act to provide for the continuance of the town of Hingham's senior means-tested property tax exemption

Senate, January 11, 2024 - Substituted as a new draft (Senator O'Connor) for the Senate Bill to amend the provisions of Chapter 381 of the Acts of 2020 to continue the town of Hingham senior means-tested property tax exemption (Senate, No. 2407).

## 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/S2553.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Patrick M. O'Connor — primary (person)
- Joan Meschino — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-11** New draft (O'Connor) of S2407
- **2024-01-11** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-01-16** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-01-29** Rules suspended
- **2024-01-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 31 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/faf02ad9-bb79-46cf-be98-e5ee5c35e008`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).