---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to grant 9 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) of Richard J. Ross and Shawn Dooley (by vote of the town) for legislation to grant 9 additional licenses to the town of Wrentham for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 23"
citation: "Massachusetts S 23 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Richard J. Ross"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-21"
last_action: "2017-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/603ce91a-7355-4f62-85eb-fea5b94e28d3"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S23"
source_hash: "e264e2fb909eabec73f541379984a5d2cd121caa521906917738217a815fbe14"
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 S 23 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Wrentham to grant 9 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

By Mr. Ross, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 23) of Richard J. Ross and Shawn Dooley (by vote of the town) for legislation to grant 9 additional licenses to the town of Wrentham for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]

## 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/S23.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Richard J. Ross — primary (person)
- Shawn Dooley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-21** Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** House concurred
- **2017-05-03** Hearing scheduled for 05/09/2017 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1
- **2017-06-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and place in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-08-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2017-08-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-08-07** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2017-08-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2017-08-17** Rules suspended
- **2017-08-17** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2017-09-07** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2017-09-14** Rules suspended
- **2017-09-14** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2017-09-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2017-09-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2017-09-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 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/603ce91a-7355-4f62-85eb-fea5b94e28d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).