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An Act removing the seating capacity requirements of licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Belmont

Reported by Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure  ·  2 cosponsors  ·  194th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

Became Chapter 204 of the Acts of 2026.

H5344  ·  Bill

19 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 H5051
2026-04-09HouseBill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2026-05-04HouseCommittee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-05-04HouseRules suspended
2026-05-04HouseRead second and ordered to a third reading
2026-06-04HouseRules suspended
2026-06-04HouseRead third and passed to be engrossed
2026-06-08SenateRead; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
2026-06-18SenateRead second and ordered to a third reading
2026-07-20SenateTaken out of the Orders of the Day
2026-07-20SenateRead third (title changed)
2026-07-20SenateAmendment (Brownsberger) adopted
2026-07-20SenatePassed to be engrossed
2026-07-22HouseReferred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading
2026-08-24HouseHouse concurred in the Senate amendment
2026-08-27HouseEnacted
2026-08-27SenateEnacted and laid before the Governor
2026-09-04ExecutiveSigned by the Governor, Chapter 204 of the Acts of 2026

1 amendments filed

1 adopted

No.TitleMoved byOutcome
Senate 1AmendmentWilliam N. BrownsbergerAdopted

1 committee vote

Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)  ·  2026-04-03 13:26  ·  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)
Correctly DrawnBills in the Third Reading (H)

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.