# Massachusetts H 4359: An Act authorizing the town of Milford to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages into a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises Massachusetts H 4359, An Act authorizing the town of Milford to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages into a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure; status signed, last action 2026-07-14 (Signed by the Governor, Chapter 142 of the Acts of 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4359-194 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Massachusetts H 4359 - State: Massachusetts - Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026) - Title: An Act authorizing the town of Milford to convert a license for the sale of wine and malt beverages into a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be consumed on the premises - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-08-07 - Last action: 2026-07-14, Signed by the Governor, Chapter 142 of the Acts of 2026 - Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure - Cosponsors: 2 - Subjects: Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, House Steering, Policy and Scheduling, Bills in the Third Reading - Touches household money: yes - Economic provisions PRIA read: 1 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Milford stores can sell all alcohol off-premises: benefit, medium. The law lets certain Milford off‑premises licenses switch from wine-and-malt only to all alcoholic beverages for take-home sales. It applies only to the licenses named in Section 1 of Chapter 289 of the Acts of 2022. The town licensing board carries out the conversions. The law takes effect upon pa… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure - Cosponsor: Brian W. Murray (Democratic), House - Cosponsor: Rebecca L. Rausch (Democratic), Senate ## Actions (20) - 2026-07-14: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 142 of the Acts of 2026 - 2026-07-09: Enacted and laid before the Governor (Senate) - 2026-07-08: Enacted (House) - 2026-07-02: Senate concurred in the further House amendment (Senate) - 2026-07-02: Rules suspended (Senate) - 2026-04-29: House concurred in the Senate amendment with a further amendment (House) - 2025-12-22: Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading (House) - 2025-12-18: Passed to be engrossed (Senate) - 2025-12-18: Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2893 (Senate) - 2025-12-18: Read third (Senate) - 2025-12-18: Taken out of the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-10-23: Read second and ordered to a third reading (Senate) - 2025-10-09: Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session (Senate) - 2025-10-06: Read third and passed to be engrossed (House) - 2025-09-04: Read second and ordered to a third reading (House) - 2025-09-04: Rules suspended (House) - 2025-09-04: Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (House) - 2025-08-07: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling (House) - 2025-08-07: New draft of H4169 (House) - 2025-08-07: Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure (House) ## Bill text - Chapter 142 of the Acts of 2026, 2026-07-14: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4359.pdf) ## Related bills - H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed) - H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate) - H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house) - H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed) - H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading) - H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed) ## Sources - [Chapter 142 of the Acts of 2026 (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4359.pdf) ## Related - [H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax aba…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4585-194) - [H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police ch…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5435-194) - [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194) - [H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H3909-194) - [H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nichola…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5429-194) - [H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the p…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5520-194) - [Massachusetts bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts/bills) - [Massachusetts state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/massachusetts) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4359-194 (as of 2026-11-01).