---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises to a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises to a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4431"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4431 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-04-19"
last_action: "2018-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3948673-b007-45e6-a5e7-f8b8559bc861"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4431"
source_hash: "ceb1ac68b357b031b1d8e5e5291eac071197f6bc386bd28d767b1c3be3d43b41"
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 4431 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Holliston to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises to a 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/190/H4431.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-04-19** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2018-04-19** New draft of H4307
- **2018-04-19** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-21** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2018-06-07** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-07-11** Taken out of Orders of the Day
- **2018-07-11** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-07-11** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-07-11** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-07-20** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 145 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3948673-b007-45e6-a5e7-f8b8559bc861`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).