An Act relative to property tax classifications in the city of Watertown for fiscal year 2027 and subsequent fiscal years

Filed by Steven Owens · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H4687 · Bill · docket HD5187

13 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-09-29	House	Referred to the committee on House Rules
2025-10-16	House	Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Revenue
2025-10-30	Senate	Senate concurred
2026-01-16	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1 & A-2
2026-01-27	Joint	Hearing rescheduled to 01/27/2026 from 01:00 PM-02:25 PM in A-1 and Virtual. Hearing updated to New End Time
2026-03-09	House	Reported date extended to Friday, June 26, 2026
2026-07-06	House	Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-08	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5569
2026-07-08	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-07-08	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2026-07-08	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-08	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-07-08	House	New draft substituted, see H5569

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act relative to property tax classifications in the city of Watertown for fiscal year 2027 and subsequent fiscal years	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

2 committee votes

Revenue (J) · 2026-06-25 16:37 · Favorable

favorable · 9

reserve right · 1

Marc T. Lombardo

no action · 1

Nicholas A. Boldyga

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-07-08 10:45 · H.4687 “An Act relative to property tax classifications in the city of Watertown for fiscal year 2027 and subsequent fiscal years” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Public hearing

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

Date	Committee	Where	Status
2026-01-27	Revenue (J)	A-1 & A-2, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Committee actions

Action	Committee
Suspend Rules	Rules (H)
Favorable	Revenue (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

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.