---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act requiring the city of Lowell to transfer certain parcels of land between the park department and the school department"
description: "Senate, April 16, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2445."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2636"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2636 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward J. Kennedy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-04-16"
last_action: "2020-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e489d8c2-727b-4033-95b9-2ec4d02a2aa5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2636"
source_hash: "82478ba64972afc445fc1fcf85b176ba2b7571c79ad0c94c18cf89a6142ba4e6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts S 2636 (191st) — An Act requiring the city of Lowell to transfer certain parcels of land between the park department and the school department

Senate, April 16, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Kennedy) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2445.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2636.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward J. Kennedy — primary (person)
- David M. Nangle — cosponsor (person)
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
- Edward J. Kennedy — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas A. Golden, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-04-16** Recommended new draft (Kennedy) for S2445
- **2020-04-16** Substituted for S2245
- **2020-04-16** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-04-19** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-05-07** Rules suspended
- **2020-05-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-20** Enacted - 156 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 174) `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Enacted -see Roll Call #188 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-05-28** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-06-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 90 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e489d8c2-727b-4033-95b9-2ec4d02a2aa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).