---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Orleans as the Norman Wood Finch memorial bridge"
description: "By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Sarah K. Peake for legislation to designate a certain bridge in the town of Orleans as the Norman Wood Finch memorial bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3969"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3969 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sarah K. Peake"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-06-07"
last_action: "2022-12-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d56ce71-d2e9-440d-8691-e338a3bbb90d"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3969"
source_hash: "7998b9c4ac6521e9038113da995981e0c412409d151e5de1ef191e7e70d843bf"
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 3969 (192nd) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Orleans as the Norman Wood Finch memorial bridge

By Ms. Peake of Provincetown, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Sarah K. Peake for legislation to designate a certain bridge in the town of Orleans as the Norman Wood Finch 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/192/H3969.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sarah K. Peake — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-07** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-09** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-15** Senate concurred
- **2021-10-07** Hearing scheduled for 10/14/2021 from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2021-10-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-11-02** Rules suspended
- **2021-11-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-12-06** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-11-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
- **2022-11-28** Rules suspended
- **2022-11-28** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Rules), ordered to a third reading, read a third time and passed to be engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-12-01** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-12-12** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2022-12-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-12-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 309 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d56ce71-d2e9-440d-8691-e338a3bbb90d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).