---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act enhancing flexibility for event licensing in the town of Foxborough"
description: "An Act enhancing flexibility for event licensing in the town of Foxborough"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4282"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4282 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles D. Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-02"
last_action: "2020-08-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e53e33f-7a77-44b9-bd9c-a4a4a9353147"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4282"
source_hash: "053a8bd2b062c602927c9dca7926e1c51545508a3ba2ec96d7d1cf65029a0fc3"
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 4282 (191st) — An Act enhancing flexibility for event licensing in the town of Foxborough

## 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/H4282.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Charles D. Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-02** Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** Senate concurred
- **2020-01-21** Hearing scheduled for 01/27/2020 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium
- **2020-02-26** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-03-02** Rules suspended
- **2020-03-02** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-12** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-03-16** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-31** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-07-31** Rules suspended
- **2020-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-07-31** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-08-06** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 141 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/0e53e33f-7a77-44b9-bd9c-a4a4a9353147`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).