---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain park in the city of Quincy as the Richard \"Dick\" Herbert Memorial Park"
description: "An Act designating a certain park in the city of Quincy as the Richard \"Dick\" Herbert Memorial Park"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4298"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4298 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Theodore C. Speliotis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-03-12"
last_action: "2018-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/117d8f89-28f2-4816-a733-b0799117e31b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4298"
source_hash: "c2b51f94011b842b7aff0156c11db09c17a7d4496bb2cf96476ea315d59f0581"
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 4298 (190th) — An Act designating a certain park in the city of Quincy as the Richard "Dick" Herbert Memorial Park

## 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/190/H4298.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Theodore C. Speliotis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-12** Substituted for H4082
- **2018-03-12** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Read, rules suspended, read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-03-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-15** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2018-03-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-03-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 59 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/117d8f89-28f2-4816-a733-b0799117e31b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).