---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing senatorial districts"
description: "Senate, October 27, 2021 -- Text of the Senate Bill establishing senatorial districts (being the text of Senate, No. 2560, printed as amended)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2563"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2563 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-10-27"
last_action: "2021-11-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23df8de5-e465-4afb-b25c-f42ffe676331"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2563"
source_hash: "f63723958ed4590b1304e08c6ce942e45ec4c4261569a5712491b316d23cb09d"
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 2563 (192nd) — An Act establishing senatorial districts

Senate, October 27, 2021 -- Text of the Senate Bill establishing senatorial districts (being the text of Senate, No. 2560, printed as amended)

## 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/192/S2563.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Special Joint Committee on Redistricting — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-27** Text of S2560, printed as amended
- **2021-10-27** Passed to be engrossed -see Roll Call #98 (Yeas 36 to Nays 3) `passage`
- **2021-10-28** Read; rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-10-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-10-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2021-10-28** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-10-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-11-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 82 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23df8de5-e465-4afb-b25c-f42ffe676331`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).