republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4187.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the licensing authority of the town of Natick to establish minimum seating capacity for granting licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages or wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises	An Act authorizing the licensing authority of the town of Natick to establish minimum seating capacity for granting licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages or wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4187	Massachusetts H 4187 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	11	0	2023-11-20	2024-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/dfa902b3-9366-4df3-bc34-6180adaf49aa	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4187	b0e90cfc6e8f28e52d913f4fe0a5a1019a121696e7484f534ec63b008c65e556	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4187 (193rd) — An Act authorizing the licensing authority of the town of Natick to establish minimum seating capacity for granting licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages or wine and malt beverages to be drunk on the premises

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
• David Paul Linsky — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-11-20 Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
• 2023-11-20 New draft of H3740
• 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
• 2024-09-16 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-09-16 Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-09-19 Enacted passage
• 2024-09-19 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-09-24 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 216 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfa902b3-9366-4df3-bc34-6180adaf49aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).