---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Fairhaven to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Fairhaven to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4086"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4086 (191st)"
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: "2019-09-25"
last_action: "2019-12-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9488231e-cfd0-43e4-9a6f-dfa5d132b80a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4086"
source_hash: "4eb4a6b102c28c404b6ac59f6782759d79771bb59ea42743309fea190d115a0f"
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 4086 (191st) — An Act authorizing the town of Fairhaven to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

## 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/191/H4086.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-09-25** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2019-09-25** New draft of H3967
- **2019-09-25** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-09-30** Rules suspended
- **2019-09-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-10-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-10-15** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-10-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-12-03** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-12-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-12-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-12-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 139 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9488231e-cfd0-43e4-9a6f-dfa5d132b80a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).