---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to real property tax deferrals in the town of Wellesley"
description: "By Representative Peisch of Wellesley and Senator Creem, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4143) of Alice Hanlon Peisch (by vote of the town) relative to real property tax deferrals in the town of Wellesley. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4143"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4143 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-12"
last_action: "2026-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa6be449-53fc-411b-9d1b-ed5c57272e2e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4143"
source_hash: "16cfb33b3a975ea50d40a93f2c869d571c8fff0c5da6643364b8c7e5c18be7fa"
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 4143 (194th) — An Act relative to real property tax deferrals in the town of Wellesley

By Representative Peisch of Wellesley and Senator Creem, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4143) of Alice Hanlon Peisch (by vote of the town) relative to real property tax deferrals in the town of Wellesley. 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/194/H4143.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12** Referred to the committee on Revenue `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-15** Senate concurred
- **2025-07-11** Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
- **2025-07-14** Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD
- **2025-10-28** Hearing scheduled for 11/07/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2026-01-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2026-01-22** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-03-05** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-03-05** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-03-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 41 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa6be449-53fc-411b-9d1b-ed5c57272e2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).