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H4269 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C. Labonte

An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C. Labonte

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Sponsor
Marcus S. Vaughn
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C. Labonte

An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C.
  • Labonte By Representative Vaughn of Wrentham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 4269) of Marcus S.
  • Vaughn (by vote of the town) that the town of Wrentham be authorized to exempt certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of former deputy police chief George C.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 Senate

    Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session

  2. 2026-04-30 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  3. 2026-02-09 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  4. 2026-02-09 House

    Rules suspended

  5. 2026-02-09 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  6. 2026-01-15 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  7. 2025-10-28 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 11/07/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium

  8. 2025-07-21 Senate

    Senate concurred

  9. 2025-07-14 House

    Referred to the committee on Revenue

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to exempt from taxation certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of Wrentham Deputy Chief George C. Labonte
By Representative Vaughn of Wrentham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4269) of Marcus S. Vaughn (by vote of the town) that the town of Wrentham be authorized to exempt certain real estate owned and occupied by the surviving spouse of former deputy police chief George C. Labonte from taxation. Revenue. [Local Approval Received.]

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Bill H.4269

Section 1: Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, commencing with fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, the assessors of the town of Wrentham may exempt from taxation under chapter 59 of the General Laws the real estate owned by and occupied as the domicile of the surviving spouse, until remarried, of George C. Labonte, a former deputy chief for the Wrentham police department and resident of the town of Wrentham, who died on August 12, 2024.

Section 2: This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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