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Bill	An Act authorizing the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption	By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2515) of Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	S 2515	Massachusetts S 2515 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Walter F. Timilty	1	17	0	2023-11-30	2024-05-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f03d4086-72ab-4118-8f28-d68e6459514a	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2515	0377c9e088e8183bb777ccc785f4301485ff3b271d30be5303fd2138e1a14cf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2515 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Mr. Timilty, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2515) of Walter F. Timilty (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Easton to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption. 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

• Walter F. Timilty — primary (person)
• Carol A. Doherty — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-30 Rules suspended
• 2023-11-30 Referred to the committee on Revenue referral-committee
• 2023-12-01 House concurred
• 2024-01-04 Hearing scheduled for 01/09/2024 from 09:00 AM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
• 2024-01-22 Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-12 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-02-12 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-03-25 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-03-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-28 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2024-04-22 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-04-22 Rules suspended
• 2024-04-22 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-05-16 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-05-16 Enacted passage
• 2024-05-20 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-05-30 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 102 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f03d4086-72ab-4118-8f28-d68e6459514a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).