---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge known as the Washington Street bridge in the town of Hudson as the “Private First Class Kenneth M. Thibault Memorial Bridge”"
description: "By Ms. Hogan of Stow, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kate Hogan for legislation to designate a certain bridge known as the Washington Street bridge in the town of Hudson as the Private First Class Kenneth M. Thibault memorial bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4023"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4023 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kate Hogan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-11-06"
last_action: "2018-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f54dd5ae-e89d-4260-991e-017bc56c4511"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4023"
source_hash: "10a5aef259405294fd83f61a4f273e36fdcaeb0deba0d31597e7db96102bb482"
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 4023 (190th) — An Act designating a certain bridge known as the Washington Street bridge in the town of Hudson as the “Private First Class Kenneth M. Thibault Memorial Bridge”

By Ms. Hogan of Stow, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kate Hogan for legislation to designate a certain bridge known as the Washington Street bridge in the town of Hudson as the Private First Class Kenneth M. Thibault 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/190/H4023.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kate Hogan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-11-06** Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-11-08** Senate concurred
- **2017-12-06** Hearing scheduled for 12/06/17 from 1:00PM-3:00PM in A-1
- **2018-01-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-01-18** Rules suspended
- **2018-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-19** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-03-22** Read and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-23** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-04-23** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-23** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-04-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-04-26** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-04-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-05-04** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f54dd5ae-e89d-4260-991e-017bc56c4511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).