---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act regarding licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Tisbury"
description: "An Act regarding licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Tisbury"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4240"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4240 (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: "2021-11-08"
last_action: "2022-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc30f605-00fa-42f0-88e4-bb6151c21242"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4240"
source_hash: "bc3b0b7aa60974f3a5d0d84930192419af77b6d8ac25f05cb6c3631a77302560"
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 4240 (192nd) — An Act regarding licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Tisbury

## 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/H4240.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Julian Cyr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-08** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2021-11-08** New draft of H3831
- **2021-11-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-11-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2021-11-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2021-12-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-01-03** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-01-26** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-08-15** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-18** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 196 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc30f605-00fa-42f0-88e4-bb6151c21242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).