---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Norwood to grant an additional liquor license"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Norwood to grant an additional liquor license"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 3897"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3897 (192nd)"
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: "2021-06-16"
last_action: "2021-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0477538f-2db5-4fa1-8afe-c03dc69e7b66"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H3897"
source_hash: "91945493af9756622462b7ba8999f0ea2ff87af4466a2590c2fc67feb159fb1d"
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 3897 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Norwood to grant an additional liquor license

## 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/192/H3897.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- John H. Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Michael F. Rush — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-06-16** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2021-06-16** New draft of H3741
- **2021-06-16** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-06-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-08-12** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-08-16** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-08-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-08-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-09-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-09-16** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-09-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-09-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-09-22** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 53 of the Acts of 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0477538f-2db5-4fa1-8afe-c03dc69e7b66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).