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H2489 • 2025

An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law

An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law

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Sponsor
Luddy, Hadley
Last action
2025-11-10
Official status
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law

An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2489) of Hadley Luddy, Kip A.
  • Diggs and Patrick M.
  • O'Connor relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-11-10 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  2. 2025-11-10 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-11-10 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-10-27 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  5. 2025-07-14 Joint

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

  6. 2025-07-03 Joint

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

  7. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Health

  8. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law
By Representatives Luddy of Orleans and Diggs of Barnstable, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2489) of Hadley Luddy, Kip A. Diggs and Patrick M. O'Connor relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education. Public Health.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.2489

SECTION 1. Section 81C of chapter 112 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the first sentence the following 2 sentences:- An approved school’s curriculum shall include education on inflammatory breast cancer, which shall be developed in consultation with experts on the study, diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory breast cancer. Approved schools may receive funds from private sources for costs related to the inflammatory breast cancer education component.

SECTION 2. This act shall be known as “Marnie’s Law.”

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