H1362 • 2025

An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures

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Sponsor: Carole A. Fiola
Last action: 2025-11-18
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures

An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures By Representative Fiola of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures By Representative Fiola of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
1362) of Carole A.
Fiola relative to defining certain invasive surgical procedures.
Health Care Financing.

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Bill History

2025-11-18 House
Read second and ordered to a third reading
2025-11-17 House
Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (under the last sentence of Rule 7A) for a second reading
2025-10-09 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling
2025-06-30 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 07/10/2025 from 09:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
2025-04-07 Senate
Senate concurred
2025-04-03 House
Discharged to the committee on Public Health
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Health Care Financing
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to defining invasive surgical procedures
By Representative Fiola of Fall River, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1362) of Carole A. Fiola relative to defining certain invasive surgical procedures. Health Care Financing.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

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Bill H.1362

SECTION 1. Chapter 112 Sections 66 to 73 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting at the end of section 66B the following:

For the purposes of sections 66 to 73, inclusive and any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, “invasive surgical procedures” shall be defined as any procedures which structurally alter the human body by the incision or destruction or cutting of tissues. Invasive surgical procedures also include the diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease processes by any instruments causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue, or surgically implanted artificial prosthetics, which include lasers, ultrasound, ionizing radiation, scalpels, probes, and needles. The tissue can be cut, injected, burned, vaporized, frozen, sutured, probed, or manipulated by closed reductions for major dislocations or fractures, or otherwise altered by mechanical, thermal, light-based, electromagnetic, chemical means, or other means.

Invasive surgical procedures do not include the use of an epinephrine auto-injector to counteract anaphylaxis.

SECTION 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict, limit or expand the current scope of practice authorized under Chapter 112 and in effect upon passage of this act, of any profession licensed under Chapter 112.

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