---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Wilmington as the Trooper Thomas W. Devlin memorial bridge"
description: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Wilmington as the Trooper Thomas W. Devlin memorial bridge"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3942"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3942 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Transportation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-07-12"
last_action: "2021-09-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28db09a3-854f-4143-92be-12124b93393c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3942"
source_hash: "f80181bfa01b6926bc995069db775dbb2b16b04e057a102b2984eded7052475a"
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 3942 (192nd) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Wilmington as the Trooper Thomas W. Devlin memorial bridge

## 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/192/H3942.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Transportation — primary (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- David Allen Robertson — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy R. Whelan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-07-12** Reported from the committee on Transportation
- **2021-07-12** New draft of H3479
- **2021-07-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-07-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-12** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-09-02** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-02** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-09-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-09-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 48 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28db09a3-854f-4143-92be-12124b93393c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).