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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the town of Berkley to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises"
description: "Senate, March 17, 2022 -- The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2500) of Marc R. Pacheco and Norman J. Orrall (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Berkley to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2788)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "192nd"
identifier: "S 2788"
citation: "Massachusetts S 2788 (192nd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-17"
last_action: "2022-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/342c6d1f-74b5-46e5-828e-2ef01a5a647e"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S2788"
source_hash: "93c408dff6a14c68ab28dd4ccddfd32614ce0ddec3081d909cb79acbf4a696da"
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 2788 (192nd) — An Act authorizing the town of Berkley to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises
Senate, March 17, 2022 -- The committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, to whom was referred the petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 2500) of Marc R. Pacheco and Norman J. Orrall (by vote of the town) for legislation to authorize the town of Berkley to grant one additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises, reports the accompanying bill (Senate, No. 2788).
## 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/192/S2788.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (person)
- Marc R. Pacheco — cosponsor (person)
- Norman J. Orrall — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-03-17** Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
- **2022-03-17** New draft of S2500
- **2022-03-17** Bill reported favorably by committee and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-31** Rules suspended
- **2022-03-31** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-04-04** Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-17** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading
- **2022-05-25** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2022-06-09** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2022-06-13** Enacted `passage`
- **2022-06-13** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2022-06-21** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 91 of the Acts of 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/342c6d1f-74b5-46e5-828e-2ef01a5a647e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).