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H4815 • 2025

An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

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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
2026-02-19
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2026
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 28 of the Acts of 2026

  2. 2026-02-17 Senate

    Taken out of the Orders of the Day

  3. 2026-02-17 Senate

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  4. 2026-02-17 House

    Enacted

  5. 2026-02-17 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  6. 2026-02-12 Senate

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  7. 2026-01-15 Senate

    Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session

  8. 2026-01-12 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  9. 2025-12-24 House

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

  10. 2025-12-24 House

    Rules suspended

  11. 2025-12-24 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  12. 2025-12-08 House

    Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

  13. 2025-12-08 House

    New draft of H4473

  14. 2025-12-08 House

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

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the select board of the town of Arlington to place upon a town ballot a question to increase the number of licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

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Bill H.4815

SECTION l. (a) Notwithstanding sections 11, 11A and 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, and chapter 28 of the acts of 2006, chapter 83 of the acts of 2010, chapter 3 of the acts of 2012 and chapter 310 of the acts of 2018, the select board of the town of Arlington may cause to be placed upon the ballot at a town election held in the year 2026 the following question:

“Shall the Select Board of the town be authorized to issue 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises?

Yes______No______”

(b) If a majority of voters voting at the 2026 town election at which the question authorized by subsection (a) appears on the ballot vote ‘yes’ on the question, then the select board of the town of Arlington may issue 2 additional licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises. The licenses shall be subject to chapter 138 of the General Laws, except as provided in this act.

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

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