---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to grant veteran’s abatements of real estate taxes to certain veterans in the city of Quincy"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to grant veteran’s abatements of real estate taxes to certain veterans in the city of Quincy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4782"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4782 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-07-19"
last_action: "2018-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e80888d-f623-42a0-a155-5cd584dca625"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4782"
source_hash: "0b88375911b7cf91b0df8d83473b1f6e21dfeb2bc26a4ab72e2ec038a811b6cd"
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 4782 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city of Quincy to grant veteran’s abatements of real estate taxes to certain veterans in the city of Quincy

## 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/190/H4782.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-07-19** Reported from the committee on Revenue
- **2018-07-19** New draft of H4720
- **2018-07-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-07-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-07-23** Rules suspended
- **2018-07-23** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-24** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-25** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-08-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-08-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-08-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-08-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 235 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e80888d-f623-42a0-a155-5cd584dca625`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).