An Act to prevent property tax bill shocks
Filed by William N. Brownsberger · 2 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
S1933 · Bill · docket SD325
12 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-02-27 | Senate | Referred to the committee on Revenue |
| 2025-02-27 | House | House concurred |
| 2025-07-11 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2 |
| 2025-07-14 | Joint | Hearing canceled – new hearing TBD |
| 2025-12-08 | Senate | Accompanied a study order (under JR10), see S2824 |
| 2025-12-11 | Senate | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means |
| 2025-12-11 | Senate | Hearing scheduled for 12/11/2025 from 04:00 PM until 12/29/25 at 5:00 PM in Written Testimony Only |
| 2026-01-08 | Senate | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting a new draft, see S2899 |
| 2026-01-08 | Senate | Order relative to subject matter adopted |
| 2026-01-08 | Senate | Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 15, 2026 |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate | Read second |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate | New draft substituted, see S2899 |
1 of these was struck from the record by the clerk and shown ruled through, because a struck line is part of what the record says happened.
1 amendments filed
1 adopted, as amended
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
|---|
| Senate 1 | An Act to prevent property tax bill shocks | Senate Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted, as Amended |
1 committee vote
Ways and Means (S) · 2026-01-08 16:45 · Ought to pass – by substitution of a New Draft
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearings
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2025-07-22 | Revenue (J) | A-2, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Canceled |
| 2025-12-11 | Ways and Means (S) | Written Testimony Only, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Cosponsors
In the order filed.
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.