---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Needham as the James J. Delaney II, UMSC Veterans Memorial Bridge"
description: "By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1985) of Michael F. Rush for legislation to designate a certain bridge in the town of Needham as the James J. Delaney II, UMSC Veterans Memorial Bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 1985"
citation: "Massachusetts S 1985 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael F. Rush"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2018-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36c05b24-53ea-453f-ac64-8bd324a796de"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1985"
source_hash: "421621ca1b97b0d7ab21d4d476cdbce9c780fb88113ec8e78275bcde80582350"
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 1985 (190th) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Needham as the James J. Delaney II, UMSC Veterans Memorial Bridge

By Mr. Rush, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1985) of Michael F. Rush for legislation to designate a certain bridge in the town of Needham as the James J. Delaney II, UMSC Veterans Memorial 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/S1985.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Michael F. Rush — primary (person)
- Denise C. Garlick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** House concurred
- **2017-03-31** Hearing scheduled for 04/12/2017 from 03:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2017-10-05** Accompanied by H3425
- **2017-10-05** Bill reported favorably by committee as changed and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-12-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-12-14** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-14** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-18** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-12-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-12-21** Rules suspended
- **2017-12-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-02** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-02** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2018-04-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-04-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 70 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/36c05b24-53ea-453f-ac64-8bd324a796de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).