---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an additional liquor license"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an additional liquor license"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 3840"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3840 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-07-24"
last_action: "2017-12-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a44bc53-061f-4c6e-b63a-b2543e9d7039"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3840"
source_hash: "25b9b836d49e0b573d48427c769a197c65ee25123e21849d46303b16935866c4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---

# Massachusetts H 3840 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an additional liquor license

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3840.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-24** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2017-07-24** New draft of H3738
- **2017-07-24** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-07-26** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-07-26** Rules suspended
- **2017-07-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-19** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-10-23** Read and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2017-11-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-12-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-12-07** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-12-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-12-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-12-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 153 of the Acts of 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a44bc53-061f-4c6e-b63a-b2543e9d7039`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).