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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 924 FILED ON: 1/14/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2439
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Kenneth I. Gordon
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to clinical laboratory testing.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kenneth I. Gordon21st Middlesex1/14/2025 1 of 1
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 924 FILED ON: 1/14/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2439
By Representative Gordon of Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2439) of
Kenneth I. Gordon relative to clinical laboratory testing. Public Health.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act relative to clinical laboratory testing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 8 of chapter 111D of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in line 22 after the words “upon the written
3request of” the following:- the person from whose body the specimen was derived.
4 SECTION 2. Section 8 of Chapter 111D of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
5Official Edition, is further amended by inserting in line 34 after the words “patients” the
6following:-
7 A laboratory test ordered under this section, regardless of test complexity, as defined
8under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, shall be conducted by a
9laboratory that routinely participates in proficiency testing for such offered test in a program
10approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This paragraph shall not be
11construed to mandate proficiency testing for a laboratory test if it is not available from any
12approved program.