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H4013 • 2025

An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs

An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs

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Sponsor
Gentile, Carmine Lawrence
Last action
2026-03-12
Official status
Accompanied a study order, see H5207
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs

An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs By Representatives Gentile of Sudbury and Connolly of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs By Representatives Gentile of Sudbury and Connolly of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 4013) of Carmine Lawrence Gentile, Mike Connolly and James B.
  • Eldridge relative to for-profit health care and insurance.
  • Financial Services.

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. 2026-03-12 House

    Accompanied a study order, see H5207

  2. 2025-10-15 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 10/27/2025 from 10:30 AM-04:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium

  3. 2025-04-14 Senate

    Senate concurred

  4. 2025-04-10 House

    Referred to the committee on Financial Services

Official Summary Text

An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs
By Representatives Gentile of Sudbury and Connolly of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4013) of Carmine Lawrence Gentile, Mike Connolly and James B. Eldridge relative to for-profit health care and insurance. Financial Services.

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4013

SECTION 1. Section 51 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph the following paragraph:-

No original license shall be issued to establish or maintain a for-profit hospital or a for-profit clinic providing ambulatory surgery.

SECTION 2. Section 51G of said chapter 111, as most recently amended by section 64 of chapter 343 of the acts of 2024, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

(9) No original license shall be granted to establish or maintain a for-profit acute care hospital.

SECTION 3. Section 4 of chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:-

(18) Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner shall not grant licenses or certificates of authority to issue policies of health insurance to any for-profit company.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect 18 months following the date of its enactment.

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