republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-3026.md

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Bill	An Act allowing the town of Williamstown to expand financial eligibility for senior property tax exemption	By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3026) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) that the town of Williamstown be authorized to expand financial eligibility for the senior property tax exemption. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 3026	Massachusetts H 3026 (194th)	bill		enacted	John Barrett, III	1	15	0	2025-02-27	2026-02-19	openstates	ocd-bill/bb9ec96f-7a79-4c1c-94dd-27bfd6913429	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3026	2f0eb8497d1f546b5361b15aaee0f8c1ac16eb1a937424f579ce24ea35a553a9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3026 (194th) — An Act allowing the town of Williamstown to expand financial eligibility for senior property tax exemption

By Representative Barrett of North Adams, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3026) of John Barrett, III (by vote of the town) that the town of Williamstown be authorized to expand financial eligibility for the senior 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

• John Barrett, III — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-27 Referred to the committee on Revenue referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Senate concurred
• 2025-04-02 Hearing scheduled for 04/08/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
• 2025-07-21 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-23 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-07-23 Rules suspended
• 2025-07-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-10-30 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-11-03 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-11-13 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2026-02-09 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2026-02-09 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-11 Enacted passage
• 2026-02-12 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2026-02-19 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 29 of the Acts of 2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb9ec96f-7a79-4c1c-94dd-27bfd6913429. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).