---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to lease the Louise Davy Trahan Elementary School for not more than 99 years"
description: "Senate, February 5, 2024 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Finegold) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Tewksbury to lease the Trahan Elementary School for a term of years not exceeding 99 years (Senate, No. 2485)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2582"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2582 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry R. Finegold"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6094ce7d-0db9-46ca-aea4-4177c06fac8f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2582"
source_hash: "317c4390f5160a30d59700674777a629582cd5a298a9eda90072d318e12cab49"
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 2582 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Tewksbury to lease the Louise Davy Trahan Elementary School for not more than 99 years

Senate, February 5, 2024 -- Substituted as a new draft (Senator Finegold) for the Senate Bill authorizing the town of Tewksbury to lease the Trahan Elementary School for a term of years not exceeding 99 years (Senate, No. 2485).

## 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/S2582.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barry R. Finegold — primary (person)
- Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** New draft (Finegold) of S2485
- **2024-02-05** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-02-08** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-03-04** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 59 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/6094ce7d-0db9-46ca-aea4-4177c06fac8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).