---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Palmer to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Palmer to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4282"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4282 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2025-11-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7f2e0f7-40fc-4866-b0f3-343528deeaad"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4282"
source_hash: "93492cb1f37640290b5a67ac363657b89b9ef71a10a04a934546bb44a55fb292"
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 4282 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Palmer to grant additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages

## 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/194/H4282.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
- Todd M. Smola — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-23** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2025-07-23** New draft of H466
- **2025-07-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-18** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-06** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-10-20** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-06** Read third `reading-3`
- **2025-11-06** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2673 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-11-06** Passed to be engrossed `passage`
- **2025-11-10** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-19** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2025-11-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-11-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-11-26** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 76 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7f2e0f7-40fc-4866-b0f3-343528deeaad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).