---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Bedford as the Major Barry Allan Seidman, USAF Memorial Bridge"
description: "By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kenneth I. Gordon and Michael J. Barrett for legislation to designate a certain bridge on Great Road in the town of Bedford as the Major Barry Allan Seidman, USAF memorial bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4446"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4446 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-27"
last_action: "2022-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dbeae0f-999a-492d-a508-319debe1ab3b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4446"
source_hash: "496473ffa4c5f7d29cf915c8bf4114b27608ec064468e5d321567ec2e77ab3a3"
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 4446 (192nd) — An Act designating a certain bridge in the town of Bedford as the Major Barry Allan Seidman, USAF Memorial Bridge

By Representative Gordon of Bedford and Senator Barrett, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Kenneth I. Gordon and Michael J. Barrett for legislation to designate a certain bridge on Great Road in the town of Bedford as the Major Barry Allan Seidman, USAF 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/192/H4446.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kenneth I. Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Barrett — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-27** Referred to the committee on House Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Senate concurred
- **2022-03-03** Hearing scheduled for 03/09/2022 from 12:00 PM-03:00 PM in Virtual Hearing
- **2022-04-14** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-05-09** Rules suspended
- **2022-05-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-13** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-16** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-09-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-09-06** Rules suspended
- **2022-09-06** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-09-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-09-08** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2022-09-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-09-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 218 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dbeae0f-999a-492d-a508-319debe1ab3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).