---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 7 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 7 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "H 5253"
citation: "Massachusetts H 5253 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-08-29"
last_action: "2022-11-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a32b4860-da77-428d-afbd-e022d3f0d2ab"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/H5253"
source_hash: "89936d47dad00d4020ff43dcbe0c3051bec2087e0920002e65b3e4a09e8b8fdc"
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 5253 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 7 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk 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/H5253.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Adam Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Finn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-08-29** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2022-08-29** New draft of H4874
- **2022-08-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-09-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2022-09-08** Rules suspended
- **2022-09-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-26** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2022-11-07** Taken out of the Orders of he Day
- **2022-11-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-11-10** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2022-11-10** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-11-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-11-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-11-16** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 270 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/a32b4860-da77-428d-afbd-e022d3f0d2ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).