republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-3979.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the City of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption	By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3979) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said city. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 3979	Massachusetts H 3979 (194th)	bill		enacted	Kate Lipper-Garabedian	1	14	0	2025-03-31	2025-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f41447ac-d9c9-4556-bfe3-af739ed6f265	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H3979	c4c677dd3b0cad8a798d8a103553f5b6c93bc2b5fec1519d5b7ebaf09783edb5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3979 (194th) — An Act authorizing the City of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption

By Representative Lipper-Garabedian of Melrose, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3979) of Kate Lipper-Garabedian (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Melrose be authorized to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in said city. 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

• Kate Lipper-Garabedian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-31 Referred to the committee on Revenue referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Senate concurred
• 2025-05-08 Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
• 2025-07-28 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-31 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-07-31 Rules suspended
• 2025-07-31 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-08-11 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-08-14 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-09-15 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-09-15 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2025-09-17 Enacted passage
• 2025-09-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-09-26 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 35 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f41447ac-d9c9-4556-bfe3-af739ed6f265. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).