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An Act authorizing the town of Bridgewater to issue an additional license for the sale of all alcohol beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Reported by Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure  ·  1 cosponsor  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 138 of the Acts of 2026.

H5342  ·  Bill

14 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2026-04-09HouseReported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
2026-04-09HouseNew draft of H4748
2026-04-09HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-04-21HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-04-21HouseRules suspended
2026-04-21HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading
2026-05-28HouseRead third and passed to be engrossed
2026-06-01SenateRead; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2026-06-18SenateRead second and ordered to a third reading
2026-07-06SenateTaken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-07-06SenateRead third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed
2026-07-08HouseEnacted
2026-07-09SenateEnacted and laid before the Governor
2026-07-14ExecutiveSigned by the Governor, Chapter 138 of the Acts of 2026

1 committee vote

Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)  ·  2026-04-03 13:24  ·  Favorable, as Redraft

favorable · 11

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
RedraftConsumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)
Place in ODSteering, Policy and Scheduling (H)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (S)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.