---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a portion of state highway Route 7 in the town of Sheffield as the Brigadier-General John G. Barnard highway"
description: "By Representative Pignatelli of Lenox and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Smitty Pignatelli and Paul W. Mark that a certain portion of state highway Route 7 in the town of Sheffield be designated as the Brigadier-General John G. Barnard highway. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4617"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4617 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-04-01"
last_action: "2024-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/842bedcb-dd9e-4349-814d-e06329f07da4"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4617"
source_hash: "1794da74607cd80fb6dc9e625faa85a3114ae4a68faa2467114d5e6b5013b073"
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 4617 (193rd) — An Act designating a portion of state highway Route 7 in the town of Sheffield as the Brigadier-General John G. Barnard highway

By Representative Pignatelli of Lenox and Senator Mark, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Smitty Pignatelli and Paul W. Mark that a certain portion of state highway Route 7 in the town of Sheffield be designated as the Brigadier-General John G. Barnard highway. 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/H4617.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Paul W. Mark — cosponsor (person)
- Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-01** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02** Senate concurred
- **2024-05-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-06-03** Rules suspended
- **2024-06-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-06-17** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-20** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment inserting in place thereof the text of S2940
- **2024-08-16** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-16** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-08-16** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2940 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-08-16** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-08-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-09-09** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-09-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-09-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-09-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 212 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/842bedcb-dd9e-4349-814d-e06329f07da4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).