---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Yarmouth as the Lance Corporal William Joseph Donovan Jr. memorial bridge"
description: "Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3685). October 16, 2017."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3960"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3960 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-10-16"
last_action: "2017-11-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3bf9657-9816-4783-a1ee-657bb3986499"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3960"
source_hash: "469772b238a896ef32aafadd069df97c6a586dddb0045b7914aea5cc15f21782"
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 3960 (190th) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Yarmouth as the Lance Corporal William Joseph Donovan Jr. memorial bridge

Substituted by the House, on motion of Mr. Speliotis of Danvers, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 3685). October 16, 2017.

## 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/H3960.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-16** Substituted for H3685
- **2017-10-16** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2017-10-19** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-11-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-11-15** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-11-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-11-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-11-15** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 131 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/d3bf9657-9816-4783-a1ee-657bb3986499`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).