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Bill An Act authorizing the town of Reading to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4243) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Richard M. Haggerty and Jason M. Lewis (by vote of the town) that the town of Reading be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said town. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.] us/states/ma Massachusetts General Court 191st H 4243 Massachusetts H 4243 (191st)
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Massachusetts H 4243 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Reading to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4243) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., Richard M. Haggerty and Jason M. Lewis (by vote of the town) that the town of Reading be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said town. 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

Sponsors

  • Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-12-06 Referred to the committee on Revenue referral-committee
  • 2019-12-10 Senate concurred
  • 2020-01-23 Hearing scheduled for 01/28/2020 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-2
  • 2020-02-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
  • 2020-02-13 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
  • 2020-02-13 Rules suspended
  • 2020-02-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
  • 2020-02-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
  • 2020-02-24 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
  • 2020-03-17 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
  • 2020-03-17 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
  • 2020-03-18 Enacted passage
  • 2020-03-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
  • 2020-03-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 50 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/186472ea-0c38-456b-b03a-a687bafd5994. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).