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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act re-authorizing the town of Swansea to issue additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
description: "An Act re-authorizing the town of Swansea to issue additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "194th"
identifier: "H 4276"
citation: "Massachusetts H 4276 (194th)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-07-23"
last_action: "2025-10-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af8f692a-bbb1-4156-952d-d42baf21674f"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4276"
source_hash: "fd864cc286dae8a0492facb798a448746d702fa0d6052cf5570828428fa9d610"
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 4276 (194th) — An Act re-authorizing the town of Swansea to issue additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic 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/194/H4276.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure — primary (organization)
- Justin Thurber — cosponsor (person)
- Steven S. Howitt — 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 H399
- **2025-07-23** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-28** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2025-07-28** Rules suspended
- **2025-07-28** 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
- **2025-10-14** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2025-10-14** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2025-10-15** Enacted `passage`
- **2025-10-16** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2025-10-24** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 47 of the Acts of 2025 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af8f692a-bbb1-4156-952d-d42baf21674f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).