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Bill	An Act designating a certain overpass in the city of New Bedford as the Andre Lopes Korean War Veteran Overpass	By Representatives Cabral of New Bedford and Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark C. Montigny, Antonio F. D. Cabral and Christopher Hendricks that a pedestrian overpass spanning state Route 18 in the city of New Bedford be designated as the Andre Lopes Korean War veteran overpass. Transportation.	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4954	Massachusetts H 4954 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	16	0	2024-07-30	2024-11-15	openstates	ocd-bill/3e59b631-2d3d-45a8-ad56-fb2012179977	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4954	c76b18713ad64841350199d17d8082c20eac850c8889da308371b155f5fbcf6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4954 (193rd) — An Act designating a certain overpass in the city of New Bedford as the Andre Lopes Korean War Veteran Overpass

By Representatives Cabral of New Bedford and Hendricks of New Bedford, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Mark C. Montigny, Antonio F. D. Cabral and Christopher Hendricks that a pedestrian overpass spanning state Route 18 in the city of New Bedford be designated as the Andre Lopes Korean War veteran overpass. Transportation.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Antonio F. D. Cabral — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher Hendricks — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher M. Markey — cosponsor (person)
• Mark C. Montigny — cosponsor (person)
• Paul A. Schmid III — cosponsor (person)
• William M. Straus — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-30 Referred to the committee on House Rules, reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-07-31 Senate concurred
• 2024-08-12 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-26 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2024-08-26 Rules suspended
• 2024-08-26 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2024-09-05 Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-09 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules referral-committee
• 2024-10-31 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2024-10-31 Rules suspended
• 2024-10-31 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-2, reading-3
• 2024-11-04 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-11-04 Emergency preamble adopted
• 2024-11-04 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-07 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-15 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 237 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e59b631-2d3d-45a8-ad56-fb2012179977. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).