---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Ronald Costa Bridge"
description: "By Representative Fiola of Fall River and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Carole A. Fiola and Michael J. Rodrigues relative to designating a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Ronald Costa bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4031"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4031 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-30"
last_action: "2018-02-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f03687cc-2890-4cc1-b658-21e2a41f6bea"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4031"
source_hash: "b5445186925cc9750debf3147525ba0f9b6d0334b95bb7f1a0d74871df6869ab"
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 4031 (190th) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Ronald Costa Bridge

By Representative Fiola of Fall River and Senator Rodrigues, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Carole A. Fiola and Michael J. Rodrigues relative to designating a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Ronald Costa bridge. Transportation.

## 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/H4031.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-30** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-09** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-13** Senate concurred
- **2017-12-06** Hearing scheduled for 12/06/17 from 1:00PM-3:00PM in A-1
- **2018-01-16** Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-18** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-02-12** Rules suspended
- **2018-02-12** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-14** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-02-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-02-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 35 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f03687cc-2890-4cc1-b658-21e2a41f6bea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).