---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Greenfield to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the city of Greenfield to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4191"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4191 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4f8e8ce-73cd-4fe8-ae1b-e6de582375e9"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4191"
source_hash: "2bc79fbfd4b19b7cc9ea3fa5b2db43202374c457cb70c3923800c5da1a8ce106"
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 4191 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city of Greenfield to grant an additional license for the sale of all 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/193/H4191.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Joanne M. Comerford — cosponsor (person)
- Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-20** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2023-11-20** New draft of H4035
- **2023-11-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-18** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-02-20** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 30 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4f8e8ce-73cd-4fe8-ae1b-e6de582375e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).