---
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: "191st"
identifier: "H 4118"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4118 (191st)"
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: "2019-10-10"
last_action: "2020-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bc6df87-a1d1-448f-8ca3-da9ed8297bba"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4118"
source_hash: "823a91ee108694d79e6b8e045a195f5d00fbf1c4e54f3a70c5812c54db2bdf5b"
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 4118 (191st) — 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/191/H4118.pdf)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-10-10** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2019-10-10** New draft of H4048
- **2019-10-10** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-10-15** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-10-15** Rules suspended
- **2019-10-15** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-11-22** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-11-27** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2020-01-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2020-02-24** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Enacted `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 33 of the Acts of 2020 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5bc6df87-a1d1-448f-8ca3-da9ed8297bba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).