republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/194th/h-4287.md

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Bill	An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 4 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises	An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 4 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	194th	H 4287	Massachusetts H 4287 (194th)	bill		enacted		1	14	0	2025-07-23	2025-12-12	openstates	ocd-bill/764b0647-eb97-499b-bace-cc418ac273d8	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4287	f7da093d66971a005ace24ba6a5c2a91b16a412adf540ef6c3d12ff5251b1da2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4287 (194th) — An Act authorizing the city known as the town of West Springfield to grant 4 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not 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)
• John C. Velis — cosponsor (person)
• Michael J. Finn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-07-23 Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
• 2025-07-23 New draft of H4155
• 2025-07-23 Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-21 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
• 2025-08-21 Rules suspended
• 2025-08-21 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-09-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-09-29 Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
• 2025-10-23 Read second and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2025-12-01 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2025-12-01 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2025-12-04 Enacted passage
• 2025-12-04 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2025-12-12 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 88 of the Acts of 2025 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/764b0647-eb97-499b-bace-cc418ac273d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).