---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating the Houghs Neck Maritime Center in the city of Quincy in honor of Francis X. McCauley"
description: "An Act designating the Houghs Neck Maritime Center in the city of Quincy in honor of Francis X. McCauley"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4435"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4435 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-04-23"
last_action: "2018-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4a695de-6547-44aa-af07-180fb3a1b7b9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4435"
source_hash: "d8d94987a83de56cdc7dbf2869e50da0293a9beaf812b39d564ff740aef10ecd"
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 4435 (190th) — An Act designating the Houghs Neck Maritime Center in the city of Quincy in honor of Francis X. McCauley

## 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/H4435.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-23** Reported from the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- **2018-04-23** New draft of H4339
- **2018-04-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-07** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-07** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-17** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-21** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-06-25** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-06-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-06-28** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-03** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 129 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/e4a695de-6547-44aa-af07-180fb3a1b7b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).