---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of North Attleborough to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4526) [Local Approval Received]. April 30, 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 5392"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5392 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2026-04-30"
last_action: "2026-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09891209-1a77-484b-822b-aadc0a2ff4e0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5392"
source_hash: "ae4be8eae8d98eb2e6efede0c5fc4e979385d13f1260eae72f1f6dce0f68a4d2"
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 5392 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of North Attleborough to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4526) [Local Approval Received]. April 30, 2026.

## 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/H5392.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Adam J. Scanlon — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-30** Substituted for H4526
- **2026-04-30** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-06-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-06-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2026-06-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-06-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-06-17** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 103 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/09891209-1a77-484b-822b-aadc0a2ff4e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).