---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act amending the charter of the city of Lynn"
description: "Senate, August 8, 2024 - New draft (Senator Crighton) to Senate Bill amending Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2018 and Sections 6-11 and 10-3 of the Lynn City Charter (Senate, No. 2783)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2936"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2936 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brendan P. Crighton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-08"
last_action: "2024-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4211d904-1394-44bb-b50d-0cf551fd9162"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2936"
source_hash: "00e9a9f1f919462446b8ef6032fc2e50e21da12f0ff35c9dba38d15f9201fd81"
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 2936 (193rd) — An Act amending the charter of the city of Lynn

Senate, August 8, 2024 - New draft (Senator Crighton) to Senate Bill amending Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2018 and Sections 6-11 and 10-3 of the Lynn City Charter (Senate, No. 2783).

## 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/S2936.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brendan P. Crighton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-08** New draft (Crighton) for S2783
- **2024-08-08** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2024-08-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-08-15** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H5023) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-03** Rules suspended
- **2024-09-03** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2024-09-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-09-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 203 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/4211d904-1394-44bb-b50d-0cf551fd9162`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).