---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to vacancies on the city of Lowell city council and school committee"
description: "Senate, July 18, 2024 - New draft (Senator E. Kennedy) to Senate Bill relative to vacancies on the city of Lowell city council and school committee (Senate, No. 2762)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2878"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2878 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward J. Kennedy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-18"
last_action: "2024-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa6bd37-3012-4a97-82b7-6a860d5b0778"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2878"
source_hash: "479f15666ffd83f132fd5a3f392367e1a896342acdfdcde174de876dc7a6a9e4"
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 2878 (193rd) — An Act relative to vacancies on the city of Lowell city council and school committee

Senate, July 18, 2024 - New draft (Senator E. Kennedy) to Senate Bill relative to vacancies on the city of Lowell city council and school committee (Senate, No. 2762).

## 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/S2878.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Edward J. Kennedy — primary (person)
- Rady Mom — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
- Vanna Howard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-18** Recommended new draft (E. Kennedy) for S2762
- **2024-07-18** Substituted for S2762
- **2024-07-18** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-07-18** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-19** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-07-19** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-19** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-07-24** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-24** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-24** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-07-24** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-24** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-07-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 138 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/3fa6bd37-3012-4a97-82b7-6a860d5b0778`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).