---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to naming a state-owned bridge in the town of Amherst after Ellen Story"
description: "By Mr. Goldstein-Rose of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1837) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Stanley C. Rosenberg and Juana Matias relative to designating a state-owned bridge on Montague Road spanning the Mill River in the town of Amherst as the State Representative Ellen Story bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 1837"
citation: "Massachusetts H 1837 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solomon Goldstein-Rose"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/125c31da-8f5f-4742-936a-590393e5532b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H1837"
source_hash: "a17f34d8bf5e70634e02132fbf66486cf7f7c851c6ae8a28c6c82b9dff4edf33"
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 1837 (190th) — An Act relative to naming a state-owned bridge in the town of Amherst after Ellen Story

By Mr. Goldstein-Rose of Amherst, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1837) of Solomon Goldstein-Rose, Stanley C. Rosenberg and Juana Matias relative to designating a state-owned bridge on Montague Road spanning the Mill River in the town of Amherst as the State Representative Ellen Story 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/H1837.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Solomon Goldstein-Rose — primary (person)
- Juana B. Matias — cosponsor (person)
- Stanley C. Rosenberg — 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** Senate concurred
- **2017-03-31** Hearing scheduled for 04/12/2017 from 03:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1
- **2017-05-01** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-04** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-05-04** Rules suspended
- **2017-05-04** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-10** Read third `reading-3`
- **2017-05-10** Passed to be engrossed - 150 YEAS to 0 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 56) `passage`
- **2017-05-11** Read, rules suspended, read second an ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-06-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-06-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-06-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-06-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 30 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/125c31da-8f5f-4742-936a-590393e5532b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).