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Bill	An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Watertown to grant 15 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises	By Messrs. Hecht of Watertown and Lawn of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4241) of Jonathan Hecht, John J. Lawn, Jr., and William N. Brownsberger (with the approval of the town council) that the city known as the town of Watertown be authorized to grant fifteen additional 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	191st	H 4241	Massachusetts H 4241 (191st)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2019-12-05	2020-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/53abe790-fb36-4168-8ea4-60663b148d47	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H4241	9339b615b87d74cba86d1e5fa345e65937065777ddbcd05dffb098e36c7b392e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4241 (191st) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of Watertown to grant 15 additional licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises

By Messrs. Hecht of Watertown and Lawn of Watertown, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4241) of Jonathan Hecht, John J. Lawn, Jr., and William N. Brownsberger (with the approval of the town council) that the city known as the town of Watertown be authorized to grant fifteen additional 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

• John J. Lawn, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan Hecht — cosponsor (person)
• William N. Brownsberger — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-05 Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure referral-committee
• 2019-12-10 Senate concurred
• 2019-12-12 Hearing scheduled for 12/23/2019 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in A-2
• 2020-01-30 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2020-02-05 Rules suspended
• 2020-02-05 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2020-02-20 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2020-03-16 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2020-03-16 Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed reading-2, reading-3
• 2020-03-18 Enacted passage
• 2020-03-18 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2020-03-25 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 48 of the Acts of 2020 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53abe790-fb36-4168-8ea4-60663b148d47. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).