An Act authorizing the City of Melrose to establish a means tested senior citizen property tax exemption
Filed by Kate Lipper-Garabedian · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
Became Chapter 35 of the Acts of 2025.
H3979 · Bill · docket HD4505
14 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-03-31 | House | Referred to the committee on Revenue |
| 2025-04-03 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-05-08 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 05/13/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-1 |
| 2025-07-28 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2025-07-31 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2025-07-31 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2025-07-31 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2025-08-11 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2025-08-14 | Senate | Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session |
| 2025-09-15 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2025-09-15 | Senate | Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Enacted |
| 2025-09-18 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2025-09-26 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 35 of the Acts of 2025 |
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2025-05-13 | Revenue (J) | A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.