---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Southbridge to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "Senate, April 7, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senators Fattman) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2509."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2818"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2818 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan C. Fattman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-04-07"
last_action: "2022-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85768315-8b2d-49d0-a2ad-45114e50a81c"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2818"
source_hash: "b879e5078e8b1ed39dac4d8b1e061912512ebb1416e6884aab7feaeba15fb64b"
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 2818 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Southbridge to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

Senate, April 7, 2021 -- Substituted by amendment by the Senate (Senators Fattman) as a new draft for Senate, No. 2509.

## 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/S2818.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Ryan C. Fattman — primary (person)
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — cosponsor (person)
- Peter J. Durant — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-07** Recommended new draft (Fattman) for S2509
- **2022-04-07** Substituted for S2509
- **2022-04-07** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-06-28** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-09-08** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-09-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-09-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-09-15** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 214 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/85768315-8b2d-49d0-a2ad-45114e50a81c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).