---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Leominster as the Honorable John Walter Olver memorial bridge."
description: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Leominster as the Honorable John Walter Olver memorial bridge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "S 2609"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2609 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-02-08"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8079cafb-1fb8-474d-8daf-daee176fde89"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2609"
source_hash: "1b470601788c320fcd4efe2088c9630ee80c978845a241286d832041f63cae28"
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 S 2609 (193rd) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the city of Leominster as the Honorable John Walter Olver memorial bridge.

## 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/S2609.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Rules — primary (organization)
- John J. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Kushmerek — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08** Reported from the committee on Senate Rules
- **2024-02-08** Recommended new draft for S2221
- **2024-02-08** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-08** Substituted as a new draft for S2221
- **2024-02-08** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-02-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** Reported from the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
- **2024-03-11** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-03-11** Rules suspended
- **2024-03-11** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-18** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-21** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2024-03-25** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 68 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/8079cafb-1fb8-474d-8daf-daee176fde89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).