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H2614 • 2025

An Act relative to medical parole

An Act relative to medical parole

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Sponsor
William C. Galvin (By Request)
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 medical parole

An Act relative to medical parole By Representative Galvin of Canton (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to medical parole By Representative Galvin of Canton (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 2614) of Paul McAuliffe relative to medical parole.
  • Public Safety and Homeland Security.
  • Status: Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-10 House

    Placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting (under the last sentence of Rule 7A) for a second reading

  2. 2025-11-10 House

    Rules suspended

  3. 2025-11-10 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  4. 2025-10-08 House

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

  5. 2025-06-20 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 06/26/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

  7. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to medical parole
By Representative Galvin of Canton (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2614) of Paul McAuliffe relative to medical parole. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Bills in the Third Reading

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.2614

Subsection (b) of section 119A of chapter 127 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- An incarcerated person may only submit a petition for medical parole once per year or if there is a substantial change in their medical status, whichever is more frequent; provided, that where a petition is based on a substantial change in medical status, the petition may be denied reconsideration prior to the notification of victim of victim’s family, if the superintendent, sheriff or commissioner determines that there has not been a substantial change in status warranting reconsideration.

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