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Bill	An Act relative to erecting a bench in honor of Rita Walsh in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston	By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Rob Consalvo that the Department of Conservation and Recreation be authorized to erect a bench in the Hyde Park neighborhood of the city of Boston in honor of Rita Walsh. Environment and Natural Resources.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 3965	Massachusetts H 3965 (193rd)	bill		enacted	Rob Consalvo	1	16	0	2023-06-08	2024-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/2528cabb-4387-477e-8be0-8aead74c541b	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H3965	c43d633cfc16ea1fec34e345b60d9cafeaff41eab023ff0d66f481b7cea42ddd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 3965 (193rd) — An Act relative to erecting a bench in honor of Rita Walsh in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston

By Representative Consalvo of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Rob Consalvo that the Department of Conservation and Recreation be authorized to erect a bench in the Hyde Park neighborhood of the city of Boston in honor of Rita Walsh. Environment and Natural Resources.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Rob Consalvo — primary (person)
• Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-08 Referred to the committee on House Rules referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 Senate concurred
• 2023-09-14 Hearing scheduled for 09/27/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
• 2023-09-14 Hearing rescheduled to 09/27/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
• 2024-01-18 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-02-01 Rules suspended
• 2024-02-01 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-02-22 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2024-07-29 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-29 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-07-29 Enacted passage
• 2024-07-29 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-07-31 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 144 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2528cabb-4387-477e-8be0-8aead74c541b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).