All Roll Calls
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Signed by Governor
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The law took effect upon passage. Southborough can grant Costco Atlantic Liquors, Inc., doing business as Costco Liquors, one extra license at 21 Coslin Drive. It allows sales of all alcoholic beverages for drinking away from the store. Massachusetts General Laws chapter 138 applies, except section 17. The license must first be issued within 2 years after the law takes effect and cannot move to another location. A new applicant at the same location must provide letters from the Department of Revenue and Department of Unemployment Assistance. These letters must confirm good standing and payment of all applicable taxes, fees, and contributions. If terminated, not renewed, canceled, revoked, or no longer used, the license must be returned with its rights and restrictions. Southborough can reissue it at the same location under the same conditions within 3 years after return; otherwise, it dissolves. Once first issued within the 2-year deadline, the license can later go to a new applicant under these rules.
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
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James B. Eldridge
Democratic • Senate
Kate Donaghue
Democratic • House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 11 • No: 0
committee vote • 6/26/2026
Committee Redraft: Favorable, as Redraft
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 227 of the Acts of 2026
Enacted and laid before the Governor
Enacted
Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed
Taken out of the Orders of the Day
Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
Read third and passed to be engrossed
Rules suspended
Read second and ordered to a third reading
Rules suspended
Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
New draft of H5425
Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Chapter 227 of the Acts of 2026
10/1/2026
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