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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2023 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4013 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Carmine Lawrence Gentile and Mike Connolly |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Carmine Lawrence Gentile13th Middlesex1/15/2025Mike Connolly26th Middlesex1/15/2025James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester3/20/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2023 FILED ON: 1/15/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4013 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representatives Gentile of Sudbury and Connolly of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by |
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| 19 | 19 | | bill, House, No. 4013) of Carmine Lawrence Gentile, Mike Connolly and James B. Eldridge |
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| 20 | 20 | | relative to for-profit health care and insurance. Financial Services. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 22 | 22 | | _______________ |
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| 23 | 23 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | An Act to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 28 | 28 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 29 | 29 | | 1 SECTION 1. Section 51 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 |
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| 30 | 30 | | 2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph the following |
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| 31 | 31 | | 3paragraph:- |
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| 32 | 32 | | 4 No original license shall be issued to establish or maintain a for-profit hospital or a for- |
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| 33 | 33 | | 5profit clinic providing ambulatory surgery. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 6 SECTION 2. Section 51G of said chapter 111, as most recently amended by section 64 of |
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| 35 | 35 | | 7chapter 343 of the acts of 2024, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:- |
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| 36 | 36 | | 8 (9) No original license shall be granted to establish or maintain a for-profit acute care |
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| 37 | 37 | | 9hospital. |
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| 38 | 38 | | 10 SECTION 3. Section 4 of chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 11Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:- 2 of 2 |
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| 40 | 40 | | 12 (18) Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner |
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| 41 | 41 | | 13shall not grant licenses or certificates of authority to issue policies of health insurance to any for- |
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| 42 | 42 | | 14profit company. |
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| 43 | 43 | | 15 SECTION 4. This act shall take effect 18 months following the date of its enactment. |
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