republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/190th/s-2143.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the city of Salem to convert 2 seasonal liquor licenses to annual licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises	By Ms. Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2143) of Joan B. Lovely and Paul Tucker (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Salem to convert 2 seasonal liquor licenses to annual licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2143	Massachusetts S 2143 (190th)	bill		enacted	Joan B. Lovely	1	15	0	2017-08-03	2017-12-22	openstates	ocd-bill/9333adcd-b02c-4456-9088-f490d0cad7a5	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2143	d74990b9b442d560f804c2c1dfe0c387ef2070eea70556c8446d1637a62a452e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2143 (190th) — An Act authorizing the city of Salem to convert 2 seasonal liquor licenses to annual licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

By Ms. Lovely, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2143) of Joan B. Lovely and Paul Tucker (with approval of the mayor and city council) for legislation to authorize the city of Salem to convert 2 seasonal liquor licenses to annual licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Joan B. Lovely — primary (person)
• Paul Tucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-08-03 Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure referral-committee
• 2017-08-07 House concurred
• 2017-08-23 Hearing scheduled for 09/12/2017 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-1
• 2017-08-29 Hearing rescheduled to 09/12/2017 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in 428
• 2017-09-08 Hearing rescheduled to 09/12/2017 from 02:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
• 2017-11-13 Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-12-11 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2017-12-11 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2017-12-14 Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee
• 2017-12-18 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2017-12-18 Rules suspended
• 2017-12-18 Read second, ordered to a third reading, rules suspended, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2017-12-21 Enacted passage
• 2017-12-21 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2017-12-22 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 162 of the Acts of 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9333adcd-b02c-4456-9088-f490d0cad7a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).