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type: "Bill"
title: "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"
description: "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"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "193rd"
identifier: "H 4187"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4187 (193rd)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-11-20"
last_action: "2024-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa902b3-9366-4df3-bc34-6180adaf49aa"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4187"
source_hash: "b0e90cfc6e8f28e52d913f4fe0a5a1019a121696e7484f534ec63b008c65e556"
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 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](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4187.pdf)
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfa902b3-9366-4df3-bc34-6180adaf49aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).