---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Pembroke to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Pembroke to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4817"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4817 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-12-08"
last_action: "2026-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5037641-885d-4724-b398-6708710dcaa5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4817"
source_hash: "2b398b52f61a42a0f366caf6f062cfca77339673f18b6c47514106c558c1d646"
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 4817 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Pembroke to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not 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/H4817.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Dylan A. Fernandes — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen R. LaNatra — cosponsor (person)
- Kenneth P. Sweezey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-08** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2025-12-08** New draft of H4570
- **2025-12-08** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-24** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-12-24** Rules suspended
- **2025-12-24** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-05** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-09** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2026-04-01** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2026-05-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2026-05-14** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2026-05-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 85 of the Acts of 2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5037641-885d-4724-b398-6708710dcaa5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).