---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Salem to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises to a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Salem to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises to a 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 4117"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4117 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-10-10"
last_action: "2020-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ee4c15d-9b42-4ba9-9ff9-16fe1795d93e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4117"
source_hash: "a4c4a2cfd0c3891436db3a690c79422460e6ffe9ef93ca5470132aa6cca72448"
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 4117 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city of Salem to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises to a 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/H4117.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-10** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2019-10-10** New draft of H4040
- **2019-10-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-12-05** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-12-10** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-01-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-25** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2020-06-29** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-06-29** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-06-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 108 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ee4c15d-9b42-4ba9-9ff9-16fe1795d93e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).