House adopts amendment and passes bill naming Gardiner bridge for Rep. Robert L. Rice Jr.

Aug 6, 2026

House Bill 5503, designating a bridge in the City of Gardiner as the Representative Robert L. Rice Jr. Bridge, was amended (including insertion of maintenance language and an emergency preamble) and passed to be engrossed.

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The clerk read House Bill 5503: "An act designating a certain bridge in the City of Gardiner as the representative Robert L. Rice Jr. Bridge." Mr. Walsh of Peabody offered a multi-part amendment — inserting the word "bridge," adding maintenance language, striking a section, and adding an emergency preamble — and the chair recorded adoption: "The amendment is adopted." The bill then passed to be engrossed as amended.

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