---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Scituate to issue four additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Scituate to issue four additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4657"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4657 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-10-29"
last_action: "2026-01-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c037ef7a-6e7c-4e48-80f1-0a89396c7a0a"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4657"
source_hash: "4cb48e74ddf2bac35d561dcec5cbe54b71628afa037bef3f4e40c393270d0798"
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 4657 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Scituate to issue four additional licenses 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/194/H4657.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Maura T. Healey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-29** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2025-10-29** New draft of H4184
- **2025-10-29** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-11-06** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-11-06** Rules suspended
- **2025-11-06** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-12-04** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-08** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-22** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2025-12-22** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-22** Read second, amended (O'Connor), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-12-24** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2025-12-31** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2026-01-05** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-01-05** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-01-12** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 101 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/c037ef7a-6e7c-4e48-80f1-0a89396c7a0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).