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 lets Weston grant one extra license to Weston Breakfast, LLC, at 31 Center Street. It covers all alcoholic drinks consumed on-site. Use is limited to the restaurant’s dining room and other public rooms or areas the town approves in writing. The license cannot move to another address. A new applicant at the same address must file letters from the state revenue and unemployment assistance departments. These must show the license is in good standing and all required taxes, fees, and contributions are paid. The license and its rights and restrictions must return to the town if the holder ends it or fails to renew. Return is also required if the license is cancelled, revoked, or no longer used. The town has three years after return to grant it to a new applicant at that address; otherwise, it ends. The law took effect upon passage, and the first license must be issued within two years of that date. A license first issued within that deadline can go to a new applicant afterward under these same rules. State alcohol-license rules in chapter 138 apply, except section 17.
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
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Alice Hanlon Peisch
Democratic • House
Michael J. Barrett
Democratic • Senate
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 203 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
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 H5461
Reported from the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Chapter 203 of the Acts of 2026
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