---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to grant 35 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises and 5 additional licenses for the sale of wines and malts to be drunk on the premise"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to grant 35 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises and 5 additional licenses for the sale of wines and malts to be drunk on the premise"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4428"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4428 (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: "2018-04-19"
last_action: "2018-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d26db48-05d3-40da-8968-a5694a796962"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4428"
source_hash: "35c77c5789afa4ef4dfebb8741d2edb2ef89c74d359eb938096fe72e64eafae7"
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 4428 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Brookline to grant 35 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises and 5 additional licenses for the sale of wines and malts to be drunk on the premise

## 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/H4428.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-19** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2018-04-19** New draft of H4068
- **2018-04-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-03** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-03** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-03** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-08-30** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-04** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-09-20** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-24** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-09-27** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2018-10-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-10-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-10-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 268 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d26db48-05d3-40da-8968-a5694a796962`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).