---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the city of Somerville to appoint an alternate member to the licensing commission"
description: "Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3969). December 7, 2023."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4205"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4205 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas P. Walsh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-07"
last_action: "2024-02-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b34eafad-f83a-4f72-922f-1a319266e374"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4205"
source_hash: "1b247ba64ac3b6eaf0aea4530825bb713bd9b1cfcdfe3fef916161b56631b139"
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 4205 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the city of Somerville to appoint an alternate member to the licensing commission

Substituted, on motion of Mr. Walsh of Peabody, for a bill with the same title (House No. 3969). December 7, 2023.

## 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/H4205.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Thomas P. Walsh — primary (person)
- Christine P. Barber — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Connolly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-07** Substituted for H3969
- **2023-12-07** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2023-12-11** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-01-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-02-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 21 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/b34eafad-f83a-4f72-922f-1a319266e374`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).