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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act naming a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Leonard “Lenny” Kaplan Memorial Bridge"
description: "By Mr. Rodrigues, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2098) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael J. Rodrigues, Carole A. Fiola, Paul A. Schmid, III, Alan Silvia and others for legislation to name a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Leonard “Lenny” Kaplan Memorial Bridge. Transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2098"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2098 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Rodrigues"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-05-15"
last_action: "2017-11-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55f9b8f8-f1cc-4411-99f7-feb9b27b7714"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2098"
source_hash: "41acad1dd4d7ea8d44ab08b6107f75b4574421647876f745a448f499717a3288"
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 2098 (190th) — An Act naming a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Leonard “Lenny” Kaplan Memorial Bridge
By Mr. Rodrigues, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2098) (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Michael J. Rodrigues, Carole A. Fiola, Paul A. Schmid, III, Alan Silvia and others for legislation to name a certain bridge in the city of Fall River as the Leonard “Lenny” Kaplan 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/190/S2098.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Rodrigues — primary (person)
- Alan Silvia — cosponsor (person)
- Carole A. Fiola — cosponsor (person)
- Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-05-15** Referred to the committee on Rules of the two branches, acting concurrently `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-15** Rules suspended
- **2017-06-15** Referred to the committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-23** House concurred
- **2017-07-11** Hearing scheduled for 07/13/2017 from 02:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-2
- **2017-09-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-09-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment
- **2017-09-28** Amendment (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules ) adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-28** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-28** Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-10-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-05** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-10-05** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-05** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-16** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-10-26** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2017-10-27** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-10-27** Emergency preamble adopted
- **2017-10-27** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-10-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-11-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55f9b8f8-f1cc-4411-99f7-feb9b27b7714`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).