H5347 • 2025

An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to grant an additional license for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

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Sponsor: Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (J)
Last action: 2026-04-13
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to grant an additional license for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises

An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to grant an additional license for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

What This Bill Does

An Act authorizing the town of Bourne to grant an additional license for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill History

2026-04-13 House
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
2026-04-13 House
Rules suspended
2026-04-13 House
Read second and ordered to a third reading
2026-04-09 House
Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
2026-04-09 House
New draft of H5084
2026-04-09 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 Bourne to grant an additional license for the sale of alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.5347

SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding section 17 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, the licensing authority of the Town of Bourne may grant 1 additional license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises pursuant to section 15 of said chapter 138 to Sea State Foods, LLC,

d/b/a Cataumet Fish, located at 1360 Route 28A, Cataumet, in the town of Bourne. 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 a license granted under this act 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 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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