---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises"
description: "An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4286"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4286 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2025-12-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d868200d-647e-4ff3-ac67-468296de7354"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4286"
source_hash: "b5abd28b1b3a5278a4c4d974a1843cdccaa418c009dcb23e1b0f4a1548ea1f4f"
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 4286 (194th) — An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off 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/194/H4286.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Justin Thurber — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Rodrigues — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-23** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2025-07-23** New draft of H3906
- **2025-07-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-21** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-08-21** Rules suspended
- **2025-08-21** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2025-11-03** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-11-06** Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-11-26** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-11-26** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-12-01** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-12-01** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-12-10** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d868200d-647e-4ff3-ac67-468296de7354`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).