---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to grant certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4115). November 16, 2021."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 4260"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4260 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise C. Garlick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-11-16"
last_action: "2021-12-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b7fa38c-977b-4d1a-bcb4-2bc6aac71242"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H4260"
source_hash: "a682e102fb8c23b76bbe0e6eb9d5c1a9b63d0865bafee3151e9f540842025414"
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 4260 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to grant certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages

Substituted, on motion of Ms. Garlick of Needham, for a bill with the same title (House, No. 4115). November 16, 2021.

## 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/H4260.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Denise C. Garlick — primary (person)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca L. Rausch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-16** Substituted for H4115
- **2021-11-16** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-11-17** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2021-12-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2021-12-20** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-12-23** Enacted `passage`
- **2021-12-23** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2021-12-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 113 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/8b7fa38c-977b-4d1a-bcb4-2bc6aac71242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).