---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to change the use of a portion of a certain parcel of land within Mother’s Park"
description: "Senate, April 8, 2024 - New draft (Senator Cyr) to Senate Bill authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to change the use of a portion of a certain parcel of land within Mother’s Park (Senate, No. 2435)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2720"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2720 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julian Cyr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-08"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16115250-a029-4b3a-bfdf-9dee5a191a54"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2720"
source_hash: "0c3b874cbd63ab800e11ef2d8a4ceac16c5e8611f03b092f1b438094bed71dc9"
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 2720 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to change the use of a portion of a certain parcel of land within Mother’s Park

Senate, April 8, 2024 - New draft (Senator Cyr) to Senate Bill authorizing the city known as the town of Barnstable to change the use of a portion of a certain parcel of land within Mother’s Park (Senate, No. 2435).

## 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/193/S2720.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Julian Cyr — primary (person)
- Kip A. Diggs — cosponsor (person)
- Steven George Xiarhos — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-08** New draft (Cyr) of S2435
- **2024-04-08** Substituted for S2435
- **2024-04-08** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-04-10** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-05-06** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-08** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H4829) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-30** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-08-01** Enacted - 152 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY No. 194 ) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Enacted -see Roll Call #244 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2024-08-01** Laid before the Governor
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 176 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16115250-a029-4b3a-bfdf-9dee5a191a54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).