---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Montague to grant 1 additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Montague to grant 1 additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "H 4462"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4462 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-05-03"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5cfde91-087d-4446-a5dd-6cbf012d5b22"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4462"
source_hash: "44566ef8e590ac6a0c5a794cc94bcf98c62ed3359d8b919a502e87aff46c2bbf"
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 4462 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Montague to grant 1 additional license 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/190/H4462.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-05-03** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2018-05-03** New draft of H4340
- **2018-05-03** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-05-10** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-05-10** Rules suspended
- **2018-05-10** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-08-06** Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-08-09** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-09-17** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-09-17** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-09-20** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-09-20** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-09-27** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 253 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/a5cfde91-087d-4446-a5dd-6cbf012d5b22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).