---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Plymouth to grant 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Plymouth to grant 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4850"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4850 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-11"
last_action: "2024-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/741dfbb0-2a3d-461a-b4ce-73c667bf4ced"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4850"
source_hash: "38bf94ba5c575010128c3ad94ada40baaeb103868c1cb56b7f9f1fcdda129c82"
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 4850 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the town of Plymouth to grant 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages

## 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/H4850.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Kathleen R. LaNatra — cosponsor (person)
- Mathew J. Muratore — cosponsor (person)
- Susan L. Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-11** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2024-07-11** New draft of H4747
- **2024-07-11** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-08** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2024-08-08** Rules suspended
- **2024-08-08** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-29** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-12-09** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-12-09** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-12-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-12-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-12-19** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 269 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/741dfbb0-2a3d-461a-b4ce-73c667bf4ced`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).