---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a section of state highway route 10 and United States highway route 202 in the town of Southwick as the Purple Heart Trail"
description: "By Mr. Humason, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2105) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Donald F. Humason, Jr. and Nicholas A. Boldyga for legislation to designate a section of state highway route 10 and United States highway route 202 in the town of Southwick as the Purple Heart Trail. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2105"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2105 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donald F. Humason, Jr."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-08"
last_action: "2018-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19a71e43-521f-49db-aa73-7221e6cc4a7f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2105"
source_hash: "8ee857f0efa04ac0ba16e8856845f069decd58c4294417a6cd20d3e128ebf1d5"
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 2105 (190th) — An Act designating a section of state highway route 10 and United States highway route 202 in the town of Southwick as the Purple Heart Trail

By Mr. Humason, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2105) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Donald F. Humason, Jr. and Nicholas A. Boldyga for legislation to designate a section of state highway route 10 and United States highway route 202 in the town of Southwick as the Purple Heart Trail. 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/S2105.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Donald F. Humason, Jr. — primary (person)
- Nicholas A. Boldyga — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-08** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-22** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-30** House concurred
- **2017-07-19** Hearing scheduled for 07/25/2017 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-10-05** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-11-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-11-30** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-12-04** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-22** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-22** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-04-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-04-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-04-13** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 71 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/19a71e43-521f-49db-aa73-7221e6cc4a7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).