---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the City of Lowell to use certain municipal land for school purposes"
description: "By Mr. Nangle of Lowell, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of David M. Nangle and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Lowell be authorized to use a certain parcel of land in the city of Lowell and the town of Tewksbury for the construction of a public high school and other school related purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3654"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3654 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David M. Nangle"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-04-13"
last_action: "2017-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cbcc16a-6407-4f96-81b9-416ab2520fec"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3654"
source_hash: "4962130f154d000f8038dcab52c847ecee1a953d68c26aadbf63350cfccc8975"
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 H 3654 (190th) — An Act authorizing the City of Lowell to use certain municipal land for school purposes

By Mr. Nangle of Lowell, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of David M. Nangle and others (with the approval of the mayor and city council) that the city of Lowell be authorized to use a certain parcel of land in the city of Lowell and the town of Tewksbury for the construction of a public high school and other school related purposes. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/190/H3654.pdf)

## Sponsors

- David M. Nangle — primary (person)
- Eileen M. Donoghue — cosponsor (person)
- Rady Mom — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas A. Golden, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-04-13** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-24** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Municipalities and Regional Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** Senate concurred
- **2017-05-04** Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2017-05-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-15** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-06-05** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-06-22** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-06-22** Read second `reading-2`
- **2017-06-22** New text (Donoghue) substituted, see S2096
- **2017-06-22** Ordered to a third reading
- **2017-06-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-06-23** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-03** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2017-07-07** Enacted - 148 YEAS to 1 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 75) `passage`
- **2017-07-07** Enacted -see Roll Call #59 [36 YEAS - 0 NAYS] `passage`
- **2017-07-07** Laid before the Governor
- **2017-07-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 46 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cbcc16a-6407-4f96-81b9-416ab2520fec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).