---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Easton to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Easton to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4116"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4116 (192nd)"
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: "2021-09-20"
last_action: "2022-01-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b57407df-0de2-4e2a-a837-639170ccc54b"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4116"
source_hash: "bb072e3fffc3678417f72a3a6c8a67c8732a76a9a67dcccfc0505af2acf9a85f"
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 4116 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Easton to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages

## 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/H4116.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Claire D. Cronin — cosponsor (person)
- Walter F. Timilty — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-20** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2021-09-20** New draft of H3890
- **2021-09-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-27** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-09-27** Rules suspended
- **2021-09-27** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-11-04** Read third (title changed), amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2021-11-08** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-12-30** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-12-30** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-01-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-01-03** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-01-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 116 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/b57407df-0de2-4e2a-a837-639170ccc54b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).