---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act allowing the town of Sharon to grant licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act allowing the town of Sharon to grant licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 4402"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4402 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-10"
last_action: "2020-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7f75d08-5497-4675-acf3-f8616915d01f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4402"
source_hash: "8c331e7842e0caed06e9153468e59816c190ee49bb466d699c2ce9a8327b5c39"
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 4402 (191st) — An Act allowing the town of Sharon to grant licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not 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/H4402.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Louis L. Kafka — cosponsor (person)
- Paul R. Feeney — cosponsor (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-10** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2020-02-10** New draft of H3821
- **2020-02-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2020-02-13** Rules suspended
- **2020-02-13** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-04-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-04-17** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2020-05-07** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-05-07** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-05-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-05-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-05-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 76 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/c7f75d08-5497-4675-acf3-f8616915d01f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).