---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Fitchburg to change the use of a certain parcel of land acquired for park purposes"
description: "Senate, May 7, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tran) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2419."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2693"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2693 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean A. Tran"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-05-07"
last_action: "2020-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a9ba41e-8b0d-4741-9df2-cecce1512b9d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2693"
source_hash: "e0c05750e364420e1b712433e1b6e75fedf9099921b40baf64c17ac935c94f73"
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 2693 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city of Fitchburg to change the use of a certain parcel of land acquired for park purposes

Senate, May 7, 2020 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tran) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2419.

## 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/S2693.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Dean A. Tran — primary (person)
- Dean A. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Dean A. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Stephan Hay — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-05-07** Recommended new draft (Tran) for S2419
- **2020-05-07** Substituted for S2419
- **2020-05-07** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2020-05-11** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-25** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2020-06-25** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-07-09** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-07-09** Enacted - 157 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 194) `passage`
- **2020-07-16** Enacted -see Roll Call #239 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0) `passage`
- **2020-07-16** Laid before the Governor
- **2020-07-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 122 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/6a9ba41e-8b0d-4741-9df2-cecce1512b9d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).