The top budget writer in the Massachusetts House knocked a decision by the lead Democrat in the Senate to end consideration of a controversial measure from Mayor Michelle Wu that would have shifted more tax burden onto the commercial and business sectors.

Wu has argued the proposal to increase the levy on commercial and industrial property owners was necessary to ward off a hike in residential bills this January. But after city officials released new data that showed a lower impact on homeowners, momentum behind the measure stalled out.

A day before the city councilors are scheduled to set Boston’s tax rates, House Ways and Means Chair Aaron Michlewitz, a North End Democrat, called Senate President Karen Spilka’s decision to rule out further debate on the bill a “disappointing outcome.”

“The House passed the Boston property tax relief bill in order to give the city the flexibility it needed to avoid double-digit residential tax increases. This kind of flexibility has been given to Boston mayors in the past and is similar to the flexibility that the Legislature has granted other municipalities, such as Watertown just last year,” he said in a statement.

House members of the Boston delegation unanimously supported an initial version of the tax shift bill over the summer and a compromise agreed to by Wu and top leaders in the business community that surfaced this fall.

The compromise bill was blocked three times over the past weeks by Sen. Nick Collins, a South Boston Democrat who suggested the measure was no longer necessary in the face of new data from the city. That came just as business leaders who hashed out the agreement with Wu backed away from the deal.

Collins was not the only one in the Senate who opposed the measure.

Senators from across the state expressed doubt — privately and publicly — about whether the proposal was necessary even before the Wu administration circulated the data showing a lesser tax hike for residential property owners.

A spokesperson for Spilka declined to comment Tuesday and referred the Herald to a Monday evening statement from the Ashland Democrat.

“It is also my job to listen to the members of the Senate, and I have heard clearly that there currently is not sufficient support for this proposal. I will therefore not bring it to the floor for further debate,” Spilka said.

Michlewitz’s continued support of the bill is a split from other Democrats in the Boston area who hold legislative leadership positions.

Sen. William Brownersberger, a Belmont Democrat whose district includes a portion of Boston and serves as the third-ranking member in the chamber, suggested Monday that it was time to shelve the proposal.

“Now that we fully understand that Boston taxpayers are not looking at a 33% tax increase, but rather a 10% year-over-year increase … I feel that we should end any uncertainty and formally set this bill aside so that the city can move forward and know that they have to set their tax rates without it,” he said Monday.

Another Boston senator, Roxbury Democrat Liz Miranda, said the tax shift was necessary “to protect residential property owners and tenants from what I believe is a property tax increase that, to some, feels like the sky is falling.”

“Families in my district across age groups and incomes are struggling to stay afloat in the city we love,” she said from the floor of the Senate Monday.