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MA S 1628

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An Act to protect the independence of clinical decision making

Massachusetts · 2025-2026 Regular Session (194th General Court) · upper

Description

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1628) of Bruce E. Tarr for legislation to allow an independent health care practice to have ultimate control over clinical decision making. Public Health.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-04-02 — Accompanied S1534
Bill type
bill
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Sponsors

  • Bruce E. Tarrprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-27

    Referred to the committee on Public Health

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-27

    House concurred

  3. 2025-07-03

    Hearing scheduled for 07/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-07-14

    Hearing rescheduled to 07/14/2025 from 10:00 AM-02:00 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  5. 2026-03-19

    Reporting date extended to Friday July 31, 2026

  6. 2026-04-02

    Accompanied S1534

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

Official source

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1628

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