---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an 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: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4188"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4188 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-12-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af5f471e-eff5-47aa-9e17-c096b84927c0"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4188"
source_hash: "9ec4a181edb8b277c42ed3f245cb1ca102c2fb1f3c7033e72eff225858f4e630"
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 4188 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Westford to issue an 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/193/H4188.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- James Arciero — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-20** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2023-11-20** New draft of H3839
- **2023-11-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-14** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-14** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-03-14** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-12-16** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-12-19** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-19** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-23** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 280 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af5f471e-eff5-47aa-9e17-c096b84927c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).