Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Education

Event Details

Status:: Completed
Event Date:: Monday, July 21, 2025
Start Time:: 11:00 AM
Location:: Gardner Auditorium and Virtual
Event Description: The Joint Committee on Education will be holding a hearing on bills related to Health.

Date of Hearing: Monday, July 21st, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

Location: Gardner Auditorium and Virtual

The Joint Committee on Education will hold a hybrid public hearing to solicit written and oral testimony in-person and remotely on the following bills that pertain to Health. 

To register to testify virtually, you must provide contact information on the form linked here. Individuals who wish to testify virtually at the Joint Committee on Education upcoming hearing must register by completing this form before 12:00 p.m. on Friday, July 18th, 2025.

Registration will CLOSE at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, July 18th, 2025. Those wishing to testify in person may register in person at the time of the hearing but are encouraged to register ahead of time using this form. The Chair will limit testimony to two minutes per individual and reserves the right to call public officials out of turn.

Please be advised that the schedule and agenda are subject to change at the discretion of the chair per committee rules.  

Please  submit written testimony to  Fiona Bruce-Baiden at jointcommittee.education@malegislature.gov and Emily Reynolds at emily.reynolds@masenate.gov, or to the Committee on Education at 24 Beacon Street, Room 473G, Boston, MA 02133. The Chairs request that those submitting written testimony include “EDUCATION COMMITTEE TESTIMONY” and the bill number IN THE SUBJECT LINE, and provide the committee with your name, organization, and phone number. The Committee will accept written testimony until July 28th, 2025.

All matters filed in the House that are listed above are required to be reported on September 19th, 2025, subject to extensions consistent with House Rule 27.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. Hearings will be recorded and posted publicly on the Joint Committee on Education page https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J14/    

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.  

You may contact committee staff with any questions at (617) 722-2070 or (617) 722-1206 or email fiona.brucebaiden@mahouse.gov and emily.reynolds@masenate.gov if you have any questions.   Thank you.
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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Education - 7-21-2025	7/21/2025 11:00 AM	04:45:20

Health 11:00am - 5:00pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.530	An Act requiring opioid use disorder education	Michelle L. Ciccolo
H.539	An Act relative to healthy school lunches	Michael S. Day
H.544	An Act to establish the Whole Child Grant Program	Marjorie C. Decker
H.545	An Act relative to MassHealth reimbursement to schools	Marjorie C. Decker
H.551	An Act Relative to Parental Rights in Education	David F. DeCoste
H.553	An Act relative to public health transparency in schools	David F. DeCoste
H.554	An Act establishing comprehensive school counseling programs	Carol A. Doherty
H.556	An Act providing CPR and AED Education for All, AKA The CPR and AED Education for All Act	Carol A. Doherty
H.557	An Act expanding reasons for excused absences from school to include mental or behavioral health	Carol A. Doherty
H.565	An Act establishing the Massachusetts farm to school program	Patricia A. Duffy
H.572	An Act relative to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automatic external defibrillator education in public schools	Carole A. Fiola
H.583	An Act to improve student and staff attendance and performance by ensuring air quality monitoring in schools throughout the commonwealth	Sean Garballey
H.586	An Act relative to type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students	Jessica Ann Giannino
H.590	An Act relative to emergency stock supply of epinephrine in schools	Kenneth I. Gordon
H.595	An Act providing for mental health professionals in public schools	Ryan M. Hamilton
H.598	An Act relative to the promotion of mental health education	Natalie M. Higgins
H.600	An Act relative to youth skin health	Kate Hogan
H.611	An Act relative to emergency stock epinephrine in schools	Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
H.619	An Act relative to youth skin health	Patrick Joseph Kearney
H.635	An Act relating to seizure disorders in schools	Kate Lipper-Garabedian
H.640	An Act Jason Flatt Law to prevent to prevent teen suicide	John J. Marsi
H.644	An Act updating the administration of medications in schools statute to include epilepsy	Joseph D. McKenna
H.645	An Act allowing the administration of antiseizure medication on school busses	Joseph D. McKenna
H.652	An Act providing for diabetes management in schools	Frank A. Moran
H.671	An Act relative to undesignated glucagon rescue therapies in schools	Edward R. Philips
H.672	An Act relative to suicide prevention in schools	Edward R. Philips
H.673	An Act improving student access to life saving treatments	Edward R. Philips
H.684	An Act concerning disposable menstrual products in schools	Jeffrey N. Roy
H.699	An Act to strengthen suicide prevention in schools	Danillo A. Sena
H.700	An Act to provide universal school meals to commonwealth virtual schools	Danillo A. Sena
H.708	An Act requiring a mental health wellness examination for all school children	Priscila S. Sousa
H.710	An Act establishing mandatory school emergency response drills in the Commonwealth	Priscila S. Sousa
H.716	An Act relative to improving mental health in schools	Joshua Tarsky
H.742	An Act to provide an option to opt out of free school lunch	Marcus S. Vaughn
H.750	An Act providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators	Thomas P. Walsh
S.311	An Act establishing the Massachusetts farm to school program	Joanne M. Comerford
S.316	An Act to promote social-emotional learning	Cynthia Stone Creem
S.334	An Act relative to youth skin health	Julian Cyr
S.342	An Act providing for diabetes management in schools	Sal N. DiDomenico
S.351	An Act relative to air quality in public schools	Ryan C. Fattman
S.363	An Act increasing access to emergency diabetes management medication	Barry R. Finegold
S.369	An Act to establish the Whole Child Grant Program	Adam Gómez
S.382	An Act requiring opioid use disorder education	John F. Keenan
S.401	An Act relative to healthy school lunches	Jason M. Lewis
S.415	Resolve creating a special commission to study classroom temperatures	Patrick M. O'Connor
S.422	An Act relating to seizure disorders in schools	Patrick M. O'Connor
S.441	An Act ensuring access to mental health supports in K-12 schools	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.447	An Act providing hands only CPR training and the use of defibrillators	Michael F. Rush
S.456	An Act requiring instruction in CPR and the use of defibrillators for high school graduation	Bruce E. Tarr

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