---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating certain areas of the World War II Memorial in the city of Boston in memory of Edward J. Morrissey, John J. Mullen and Joseph P. Murphy"
description: "An Act designating certain areas of the World War II Memorial in the city of Boston in memory of Edward J. Morrissey, John J. Mullen and Joseph P. Murphy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4194"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4194 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-11-14"
last_action: "2020-07-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8eb74e76-a1a0-4f57-a758-8d728c488a45"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4194"
source_hash: "d24310a6a1da5515cf09509a86dcd738d1f0aef1d44d1a4b139bfb11b968ca78"
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 4194 (191st) — An Act designating certain areas of the World War II Memorial in the city of Boston in memory of Edward J. Morrissey, John J. Mullen and Joseph P. Murphy

## 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/191/H4194.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-11-14** Reported from the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture
- **2019-11-14** New draft of H3950
- **2019-11-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-11-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-11-18** Rules suspended
- **2019-11-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-06-22** Rules suspended
- **2020-06-22** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-06-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-25** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2020-06-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-07-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 110 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8eb74e76-a1a0-4f57-a758-8d728c488a45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).