---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Milford to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Milford to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5176"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5176 (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: "2022-08-18"
last_action: "2022-12-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae5d0f29-20c9-41d7-8c95-c43d5c3e0168"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5176"
source_hash: "006d53b8898bfda872148fc5cd7691d545232aef37abf1da5e976993c6901247"
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 5176 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Milford to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises

## 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/H5176.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-08-18** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2022-08-18** New draft of H4883
- **2022-08-18** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-09-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-09-06** Rules suspended
- **2022-09-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-10-11** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-11-23** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-23** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-12-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-12-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-12-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 288 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/ae5d0f29-20c9-41d7-8c95-c43d5c3e0168`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).