---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to grant certain licenses for the temporary sale of alcoholic beverages"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to grant certain licenses for the temporary sale of alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5016"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5016 (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: "2022-07-12"
last_action: "2022-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fdd739a-4176-4ed1-bbaa-5a0f164d7b1f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5016"
source_hash: "8fa5f19b0eee0dcbc51982ae872e2f3842fc069ce29bfa5e28c080c1d629ac4f"
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 5016 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Wellesley to grant certain licenses for the temporary sale of 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/H5016.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Alice Hanlon Peisch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-07-12** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2022-07-12** New draft of H4845
- **2022-07-12** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-07-18** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2022-07-28** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-07-28** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-07-31** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-07-31** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-07-31** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-08-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-08-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 186 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/5fdd739a-4176-4ed1-bbaa-5a0f164d7b1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).