---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Dedham as the Honorable Deborah R. Cochran memorial bridge"
description: "By Representative McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3382) of Paul McMurtry relative to designating a certain bridge in the town of Dedham as the Honorable Deborah R. Cochran memorial bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 3382"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3382 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul McMurtry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43aec96-3fbe-4012-8c27-49a0a021ff7b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3382"
source_hash: "8792c9805e02ce3cfc34d42e132fde1d062877b87e899ebbb026acdb70680168"
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 3382 (193rd) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Dedham as the Honorable Deborah R. Cochran memorial bridge

By Representative McMurtry of Dedham, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3382) of Paul McMurtry relative to designating a certain bridge in the town of Dedham as the Honorable Deborah R. Cochran 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/193/H3382.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul McMurtry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Senate concurred
- **2023-08-14** Hearing scheduled for 08/29/2023 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
- **2023-09-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-09-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-09-28** Rules suspended
- **2023-09-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-10-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-10-12** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session, with an amendment
- **2024-02-12** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-12** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-02-28** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-02-29** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 49 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c43aec96-3fbe-4012-8c27-49a0a021ff7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).