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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act authorizing the Town of Hopkinton to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
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description: "An Act authorizing the Town of Hopkinton to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "190th"
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identifier: "H 4389"
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citation: "Massachusetts H 4389 (190th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Revenue"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2018-04-09"
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last_action: "2018-08-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee960044-50e3-4849-a150-524ff5f86692"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4389"
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source_hash: "52c5903403c25d580de2f62c0fe21871f03753f48ee2c85563795b2f425b1c20"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts H 4389 (190th) — An Act authorizing the Town of Hopkinton to establish a means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4389.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Joint Committee on Revenue — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-04-09** Reported from the committee on Revenue
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- **2018-04-09** New draft of H4258
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- **2018-04-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2018-04-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
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- **2018-04-19** Rules suspended
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- **2018-04-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2018-06-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2018-06-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
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- **2018-06-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2018-08-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
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- **2018-08-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2018-08-13** Enacted `passage`
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- **2018-08-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2018-08-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 234 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee960044-50e3-4849-a150-524ff5f86692`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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