Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Start Time:

10:00 AM

Location:

A-2 and Virtual

Event Description

The Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing on bills relating to home, flood, life, and civil service.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing. Everyone seeking to provide oral testimony, either in person or virtually, must pre-register via this Link. Registration will end at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, May 12th, 2025. Please indicate whether you plan to testify in person or virtually.
This hearing will be livestreamed on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/.
The recording of the hearing will be posted publicly on the Joint Committee on Financial Services page [https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J11/Hearings].

At the discretion of the Chairs and per committee rules, written testimony received by the committee will be made publicly available. The committee may limit availability or redact testimony that includes sensitive personal information, information about minors, or information that may jeopardize the health, wellness or safety of the testifier or others. Written testimony is available upon request from the Chair.

Written testimony can be submitted via email at JointCommittee.FinancialServices@malegislature.gov or physically mailed to the House Chair:

CHAIR JAMES MURPHY
JOINT COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES
ATTN: ROBIN CHAN
24 BEACON ST ROOM 254
BOSTON MA 02133

For in-person and remote testimony please include:
1. Name;
2. Organization you represent;
3. Whether on behalf of yourself or an organization;
4. Mailing address;
5. Email address;
6. Telephone number;
7. In-person or remote testimony;
8. Bills testifying on;
9. Whether support or oppose.

For those testifying remotely, you will receive a Microsoft Teams link with more information prior to the start of the hearing.

This hearing will be chaired by House Chair James Murphy. If you have any questions regarding the hearing, legislation, format of the hearing or reasonable accommodations required to ensure people with disabilities can participate fully in the committee process, please email: Robin Chan at (robin.chan@mahouse.gov). House Chair Murphy’s office can be reached via telephone: (617) 722-2220.

You may contact Committee staff with any questions at robin.chan@mahouse.gov or  shane.correale@masenate.gov
The chairs will limit testimony to 3 minutes per speaker.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Financial Services -- 5-13-2025	5/13/2025 10:00 AM	01:04:34

Home, Life, Flood, and Civil Service 10:00am - 11:20am

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.1084	An Act relative to modernization of insurance laws	Bruce J. Ayers
H.1085	An Act relative to an investigation to review flood insurance rates	Bruce J. Ayers
H.1087	An Act relative to civil liability for improper flood hazard determinations	Bruce J. Ayers
H.1097	An Act relative to homeowners’ insurance	Antonio F. D. Cabral
H.1100	An Act relating to insurance adjusters	Daniel Cahill
H.1105	An Act relating to modernizing business to business commercial insurance transactions	Daniel Cahill
H.1123	An Act relative to notices by insurance companies	Michael S. Day
H.1129	An Act to conform private with public subrogation policy	Marjorie C. Decker
H.1139	An Act relative to motor vehicle service contracts	Daniel M. Donahue
H.1150	An Act further regulating the withdrawal of local subscribers from the commission	Rodney M. Elliott
H.1160	An Act exempting visiting trainees from certain employment requirements	William C. Galvin
H.1175	An Act to provide homeowners with fair insurance premiums	Carlos González
H.1176	An Act relative to homeowners’ insurance complaint education	Carlos González
H.1184	An Act to amend the insurance law, in relation to providing protection to certain retirees from pension de-risking transactions	Ryan M. Hamilton
H.1217	An Act relative to modernizing private flood insurance	Patrick Joseph Kearney
H.1225	An Act ensuring sufficient notice to homeowners by insurance companies prior to an inspection	Sally P. Kerans
H.1233	An Act relative to insurance company rebates	John J. Lawn, Jr.
H.1248	An Act providing living organ donor protections	Kate Lipper-Garabedian
H.1250	An Act relative to greater fairness in insurance	Jay D. Livingstone
H.1252	An Act relative to gender identity in insurance	Jay D. Livingstone
H.1303	An Act to provide prompt payment following settlement by insurance company	Jeffrey N. Roy
H.1328	An Act relative to annuity benefit insurance	Todd M. Smola
H.1293	An Act relative to preserving consumer choice in the purchase of motor vehicle service contracts	Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.
S.701	An Act relative to electronic notices of the cancellation, renewal or nonrenewal of insurance policies	John J. Cronin
S.727	An Act providing living organ donor protections	William J. Driscoll, Jr.
S.780	An Act requiring mental health parity for disability policies	Joan B. Lovely
S.785	An Act relative to insurance claims	Joan B. Lovely
S.812	An Act relative to motor vehicle service contracts	Jacob R. Oliveira

Present (8)

James M. Murphy (HOU)

Michael S. Chaisson (HOU)

Ryan M. Hamilton (HOU)

Steven S. Howitt (HOU)

Sally P. Kerans (HOU)

Kate Lipper-Garabedian (HOU)

William F. MacGregor (HOU)

Christopher J. Worrell (HOU)

Absent (3)

David Biele (HOU) *

Simon Cataldo (HOU) *

Tram T. Nguyen (HOU) *

	Document
	S812
	S785
	S780
	S727
	S701

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

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