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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2023 FILED ON: 1/15/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4013
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Carmine Lawrence Gentile and Mike Connolly
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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 to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Carmine Lawrence Gentile13th Middlesex1/15/2025Mike Connolly26th Middlesex1/15/2025James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester3/20/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2023 FILED ON: 1/15/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4013
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.
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 to improve healthcare and reduce consumer costs.
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 51 of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the second paragraph the following
3paragraph:-
4 No original license shall be issued to establish or maintain a for-profit hospital or a for-
5profit clinic providing ambulatory surgery.
6 SECTION 2. Section 51G of said chapter 111, as most recently amended by section 64 of
7chapter 343 of the acts of 2024, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-
8 (9) No original license shall be granted to establish or maintain a for-profit acute care
9hospital.
10 SECTION 3. Section 4 of chapter 175 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
11Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:- 2 of 2
12 (18) Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner
13shall not grant licenses or certificates of authority to issue policies of health insurance to any for-
14profit company.
15 SECTION 4. This act shall take effect 18 months following the date of its enactment.