---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain overpass in the city of New Bedford as the Andre Lopes Korean War Veteran Overpass"
description: "By Representatives Cabral of New Bedford and Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark C. Montigny, Antonio F. D. Cabral and Christopher Hendricks that a pedestrian overpass spanning state Route 18 in the city of New Bedford be designated as the Andre Lopes Korean War veteran overpass. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4954"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4954 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-30"
last_action: "2024-11-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e59b631-2d3d-45a8-ad56-fb2012179977"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4954"
source_hash: "c76b18713ad64841350199d17d8082c20eac850c8889da308371b155f5fbcf6e"
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 4954 (193rd) — An Act designating a certain overpass in the city of New Bedford as the Andre Lopes Korean War Veteran Overpass

By Representatives Cabral of New Bedford and Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark C. Montigny, Antonio F. D. Cabral and Christopher Hendricks that a pedestrian overpass spanning state Route 18 in the city of New Bedford be designated as the Andre Lopes Korean War veteran overpass. 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/H4954.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Antonio F. D. Cabral — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher M. Markey — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid III — cosponsor (person)
- William M. Straus — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-30** 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`
- **2024-07-31** Senate concurred
- **2024-08-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-08-26** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-09-05** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-09-09** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-10-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-10-31** Rules suspended
- **2024-10-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-11-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-11-04** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-11-04** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-11-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-11-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 237 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/3e59b631-2d3d-45a8-ad56-fb2012179977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).