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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act extending the date for issuance of certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in Hanover"
description: "By Representative DeCoste of Norwell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4009) of David F. DeCoste and John F. Keenan (by vote of the town) relative to extending the date for issuance of certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Hanover. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4009"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4009 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David F. DeCoste"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-07-24"
last_action: "2024-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/954b7f15-45e3-4dd9-a231-e076ae690ca5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4009"
source_hash: "76bba15723122c92a27d6defa68c6a94bbbf3adf1cf087e1d071540ad741867b"
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 4009 (193rd) — An Act extending the date for issuance of certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in Hanover
By Representative DeCoste of Norwell, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4009) of David F. DeCoste and John F. Keenan (by vote of the town) relative to extending the date for issuance of certain licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises in the town of Hanover. 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/193/H4009.pdf)
## Sponsors
- David F. DeCoste — primary (person)
- John F. Keenan — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-07-24** Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-26** Senate concurred
- **2023-09-18** Hearing scheduled for 09/25/2023 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in Written Testimony Only
- **2023-11-20** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-18** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2023-12-18** Rules suspended
- **2023-12-18** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** Read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2024-02-29** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-01** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2024-04-01** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Enacted `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2024-04-11** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 73 of the Acts of 2024 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/954b7f15-45e3-4dd9-a231-e076ae690ca5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).