republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4784.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of North Reading to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption	By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4784) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Bruce E. Tarr (by vote of the town) that the town of North 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	193rd	H 4784	Massachusetts H 4784 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	15	0	2024-06-20	2024-11-15	openstates	ocd-bill/4769c2fe-5884-4a4b-9840-dbb6ce69cb8d	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4784	9750e2fdbc259dde455ad2c7ed6461856719364536db132e6925ac95661f1f3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4784 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of North Reading to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4784) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Bruce E. Tarr (by vote of the town) that the town of North 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. — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-06-20 Referred to the committee on Revenue referral-committee
• 2024-06-24 Senate concurred
• 2024-07-02 Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-07-15 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-18 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-07-18 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-18 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-08-01 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-05 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-11-04 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-11-04 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-11-07 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-07 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-15 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 233 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4769c2fe-5884-4a4b-9840-dbb6ce69cb8d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).