---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing a ballot question in the town of Rockport relative to the granting of 2 licenses for alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "Senate, May 2, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 186."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "S 2212"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2212 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bruce E. Tarr"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-02"
last_action: "2019-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1713b557-c36f-41da-a5db-928f1caa3a7a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S2212"
source_hash: "ab0539f78a1b1cb9f755a77c2e2513d1d26775ccd92ad10c58b7a3990afb40f6"
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 2212 (191st) — An Act authorizing a ballot question in the town of Rockport relative to the granting of 2 licenses for alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Senate, May 2, 2019 – Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Tarr) as a new draft for Senate, No. 186.

## 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/S2212.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Bruce E. Tarr — primary (person)
- Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-02** Recommended new draft for S186
- **2019-05-02** Substituted as a new draft for S186
- **2019-05-02** Ordered to a third reading
- **2019-05-02** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-05-02** Rules suspended
- **2019-05-02** Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-05-02** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 12 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/1713b557-c36f-41da-a5db-928f1caa3a7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).