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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Westport to grant 1 additional liquor license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "By Mr. Rodrigues, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2303) of Michael J. Rodrigues and Paul A. Schmid, III (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Westport to grant 1 additional liquor license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "190th"
identifier: "S 2303"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2303 (190th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael J. Rodrigues"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9d05168-927c-45a8-b900-5b1b24c0c7ef"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2303"
source_hash: "f1909393f42cb3d1d33bb7555c6e33d769b43cac1178e1b4d59eec9fd749d6a7"
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 S 2303 (190th) — An Act authorizing the town of Westport to grant 1 additional liquor license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises
By Mr. Rodrigues, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2303) of Michael J. Rodrigues and Paul A. Schmid, III (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Westport to grant 1 additional liquor license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2303.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Michael J. Rodrigues — primary (person)
- Paul A. Schmid, III — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-14** Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** House concurred
- **2018-03-02** Hearing scheduled for 03/05/2018 from 12:30 PM-01:00 PM in B-2
- **2018-03-29** Ought NOT to pass (under JR 10)
- **2018-03-29** Rules suspended
- **2018-03-29** Recommitted to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2018-04-09** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-11** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2018-04-11** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third (title changed and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-04-12** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-30** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2018-04-30** Rules suspended
- **2018-04-30** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-10** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2018-05-14** Enacted `passage`
- **2018-05-17** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2018-05-25** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 95 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9d05168-927c-45a8-b900-5b1b24c0c7ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).