---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Wareham to grant an additional license for the sale of malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "Senate, November 24, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2501."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2587"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2587 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marc R. Pacheco"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-11-24"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43c1dddc-69a4-4b6d-bb55-581d05499075"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2587"
source_hash: "a7e5036059838e1a410f10acbf7c66366bb67de1a1c206d394d0c1487f58a4f3"
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 S 2587 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Wareham to grant an additional license for the sale of malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Senate, November 24, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senator Pacheco) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2501.

## 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/S2587.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Marc R. Pacheco — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — cosponsor (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Williams Gifford — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-11-24** Recommended new draft (Pacheco) for S2501
- **2021-11-24** Substituted for S2501
- **2021-11-24** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2021-11-29** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2021-12-09** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2021-12-09** Rules suspended
- **2021-12-09** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-10** Read third, amended by substitution of a new text (H4320) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-03-03** Rules suspended
- **2022-03-03** Senate concurred in the House amendment
- **2022-03-07** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 31 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/43c1dddc-69a4-4b6d-bb55-581d05499075`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).