Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

Event Details

Status:

Completed

Event Date:

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Start Time:

12:30 PM

Location:

Gardner Auditorium and Virtual

Event Description

The Joint Committee on Financial Services will hold a public hearing on the following health insurance matters.

The public is invited to participate in this hybrid hearing, which will be livestreamed on the General Court website, https://malegislature.gov/. CART services and ASL interpretation will be available.

The hearing will be recorded and archived on the Joint Committee on Financial Services webpage for the duration of the 194th legislative session at, https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J11/Hearings.

***INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGISTRATION / TESTIMONY***

Persons who wish to testify in person or virtually or submit written testimony may do so by completing this form linked here.

https://forms.office.com/g/mZ6Cn1Uq6J

DEADLINE TO PRE-REGISTER: Persons planning to testify virtually must sign up no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, September 15, 2025. Individuals and groups testifying in person are strongly encouraged to register using the form above prior to the deadline. Registration by the deadline is required for those who wish to testify virtually during the live hearing and encouraged for those who wish to testify in person. Please indicate whether you plan to testify in person or virtually. A Microsoft Teams invitation to the hearing will be emailed after the registration deadline closes, shortly before the hearing. Please be aware that even those who register to testify in person will be emailed a Teams link to participate virtually as a backup option.

SAME DAY SIGN-UP FOR IN-PERSON TESTIMONY ONLY – IF TIME ALLOWS: Individuals who miss the deadline to pre-register for testimony may appear on the day of the hearing and sign-up to speak in person on forms provided by committee staff outside of the hearing room. Time permitting, when all pre-registered individuals have been called to testify, the Chairs will then call any individuals who signed up on the day of the hearing.

WRITTEN TESTIMONY: If you would like to provide written testimony, please include the bill number in the subject line of the email, as well as your name, address, phone number, and organization, if any, on the submitted testimony. Written testimony is encouraged and will continue to be accepted after the hearing until the relevant bill is acted upon. The Committee requests that written testimony may be submitted to the Joint Committee on Financial Services by emailing jointcmte-financialservices@malegislature.gov Please include "Financial Services Committee Testimony, [Relevant Bill Number]" in the subject line of the email. Those who plan to submit only written testimony may do so before or after the signup deadline.

The most secure method to submit testimony is through The Committee’s email address above. In the alternative, written testimony may be submitted to the Committee at: State House, Joint Committee on Financial Services, Room 254, 24 Beacon Street, Boston, MA. 02133. Please use only one method to submit your testimony and please submit no more than once.

Please be advised that all written testimony submitted will be read by Committee Members and staff and may be made publicly available at the discretion of the Chairs. Do not submit any personal information you do not wish to disclose publicly.

ORDER OF TESTIMONY: The Chairs, at their discretion, will determine the order of testimony during the hearing. It is the responsibility of the individuals registered to testify to be prepared to speak when called upon by the Chairs. In the event that an individual is called by the Chairs and that person is unavailable to testify, the Chairs will move on and call the next individual or panel. The Chairs will limit testimony to 3 minutes per speaker.

If you have any questions, you may email lisa.pellegrino@mahouse.gov, from Chair Murphy’s office or Shane Correale shane.correale@masenate.gov from Chair Feeney’s office.

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Item Name	Start Time	Duration	Webcast
Joint Committee on Financial Services - 9-17-2025	9/17/2025 12:30 PM	03:18:39

Health Insurance 12:30pm - 4:30pm

Bill	Bill Title	Sponsor
H.1297	An Act relative to colon screenings	David Allen Robertson
H.1076	An Act relative to colon cancer screening	James Arciero
S.776	An Act relative to colon cancer screening	Edward J. Kennedy
H.1169	An Act relative to colon cancer under the age of 50 years of age, prevalence, screening and insurance coverage and care in the Commonwealth aka Martha's Bill	Colleen M. Garry
H.1286	An Act relative to colorectal and breast cancer screenings	Edward R. Philips
H.1230	An Act mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer	John J. Lawn, Jr.
S.690	An Act mandating access to cancer screenings for firefighters through health care benefits plans or programs provided by the public employer	Brendan P. Crighton
H.4012	An Act relative to ensuring access to neurological disorder screenings for firefighters	Bruce J. Ayers
H.3946	An Act relative to health insurance coverage for hearing aids	Sean Garballey
S.756	An Act expanding insurance coverage for hearing aids and related services	Barry R. Finegold
H.1216	An Act relative to insurance coverage of hearing aids	Kristin E. Kassner
H.1337	An Act relative to opioid use disorder treatment and rehabilitation coverage	Andres X. Vargas
H.4014	An Act authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment	Carmine Lawrence Gentile
H.1308	An Act relative to protecting reproductive destiny	Lindsay N. Sabadosa
H.1134	An Act to improve access and care coordination for people with pain	Marjorie C. Decker
H.1315	An Act relative to IUD pain management coverage	Lindsay N. Sabadosa
S.824	An Act relative to IUD pain management coverage	Rebecca L. Rausch
S.710	An Act relative to gender-affirming hair removal treatment	Julian Cyr
H.1245	An Act to address barriers to HIV prevention medication	Jack Patrick Lewis
S.717	An Act to strengthen the control of contagious and infectious diseases in the Commonwealth	Julian Cyr
H.1295	An Act promoting consumer choice in health care	Sean Reid
S.695	An Act promoting consumer choice in health care	Brendan P. Crighton
H.4162	An Act to increase access to healthcare for ostomy patients	Rob Consalvo

Present (9)

James M. Murphy (HOU)

David Biele (HOU)

Simon Cataldo (HOU)

Ryan M. Hamilton (HOU)

Steven S. Howitt (HOU)

Sally P. Kerans (HOU)

William F. MacGregor (HOU)

Tram T. Nguyen (HOU)

Christopher J. Worrell (HOU)

Absent (2)

Michael S. Chaisson (HOU) *

Kate Lipper-Garabedian (HOU) *

	Document
	H1076 summary
	H1134 summary
	H1169 summary
	H1216 summary
	H1230 summary
	H1245 summary
	H1286 summary
	H1295 summary
	H1297 summary
	H1308 summary
	H1315 summary
	H1337 summary
	H3946 summary
	H4012 summary
	H4014 summary
	H4162 summary

Hearing DetailsJoint Committee on Financial Services

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