---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relative to the direct wine shipper license"
description: "An Act relative to the direct wine shipper license"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4698"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4698 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-05-30"
last_action: "2024-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17cb5513-d6be-48b2-bc7d-3cb514eb6717"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4698"
source_hash: "5fd450d05ca06bb476bef7ec1923302ad7461149a6834196a40bcd6a958cb195"
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 4698 (193rd) — An Act relative to the direct wine shipper license

## 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/H4698.pdf)

## Sponsors

- House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
- Tackey Chan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-30** Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
- **2024-05-30** Pending new draft of H4130
- **2024-05-30** New draft of H4130
- **2024-05-30** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-05-30** Rules suspended
- **2024-05-30** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-06-03** Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-22** Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, inserting in place thereof the text of S2886 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-22** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-22** Read second `reading-2`
- **2024-07-22** Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2886 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-07-22** Ordered to a third reading
- **2024-07-22** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-29** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-30** Rules suspended
- **2024-07-30** House concurred in the Senate amendment
- **2024-07-30** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-07-30** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-08-08** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 179 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/17cb5513-d6be-48b2-bc7d-3cb514eb6717`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).