---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act to designate the Route 9 highway bridge between Belchertown and Ware as the Kenneth J. Iwasinski Memorial Bridge"
description: "By Representative Saunders of Belchertown and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Aaron L. Saunders, Jacob R. Oliveira and Todd M. Smola for legislation to designate a certain bridge on state Route 9 between the towns of Belchertown and Ware as the Kenneth J. Iwasinski memorial bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4008"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4008 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-17"
last_action: "2024-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/275cf745-678d-43a9-a0ac-aeaad367877e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4008"
source_hash: "9d55b323912476cbe7c5dfbb0de6b3c14003a4af26f3938bffc200db7c51d4aa"
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 4008 (193rd) — An Act to designate the Route 9 highway bridge between Belchertown and Ware as the Kenneth J. Iwasinski Memorial Bridge

By Representative Saunders of Belchertown and Senator Oliveira, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Aaron L. Saunders, Jacob R. Oliveira and Todd M. Smola for legislation to designate a certain bridge on state Route 9 between the towns of Belchertown and Ware as the Kenneth J. Iwasinski 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/193/H4008.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Aaron L. Saunders — cosponsor (person)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- Shirley B. Arriaga — cosponsor (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-07-17** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-20** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-24** Senate concurred
- **2023-08-07** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-08-17** Rules suspended
- **2023-08-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2023-09-21** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-09-25** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-02-20** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-20** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-02-22** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-02-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 41 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/275cf745-678d-43a9-a0ac-aeaad367877e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).