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H4286 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)
Last action
2025-12-10
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

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Bill History

  1. 2025-12-10 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 86 of the Acts of 2025

  2. 2025-12-01 House

    Enacted

  3. 2025-12-01 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2025-11-26 Senate

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  5. 2025-11-26 Senate

    Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed

  6. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Read, rules suspended, read second and ordered to a third reading

  7. 2025-11-03 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  8. 2025-08-21 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  9. 2025-08-21 House

    Rules suspended

  10. 2025-08-21 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  11. 2025-07-23 House

    Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

  12. 2025-07-23 House

    New draft of H3906

  13. 2025-07-23 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the town of Somerset to grant an additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages to be drunk off the premises

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4286

SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the town of Somerset may grant 1 additional license for the sale of wine and malt beverages not to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 15 of said chapter 138 to Olde Village Convenience Store located at 2756 County Street in the town. The license granted pursuant to this act shall be subject to all of said chapter 138 except said section 17.

(b)

The licensing authority shall not approve the transfer of a license granted pursuant to this act to any other location, but it may grant the license to a new applicant at the same location if the applicant files with the licensing authority a letter from the department of revenue and a letter from the department of unemployment assistance indicating that the license is in good standing with those departments and that all applicable taxes, fees, and contributions have been paid.

(c) If a licensee terminates or fails to renew the license granted under this section or any such license is cancelled, revoked or no longer in use, it shall be returned physically, with all of the legal rights, privileges and restrictions pertaining thereto, to the licensing authority which may, within 3 years after such return, then grant the license to a new applicant at the same location and under the same terms and conditions as specified in this section, otherwise such license shall dissolve.

(d) The license granted under this act shall be issued within 1 year after the effective date of this act; provided, however, that if the license is originally granted within that time period, it may be granted to a new applicant under subsections (b) and (c) thereafter.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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