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Regulating the operation of medical spas
To establish a celiac disease screening pilot program
To establish a celiac disease screening pilot program
Establishing statewide food truck regulations
Enabling trained school personnel to administer life saving epinephrine treatment
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
To address conflicts of interest in the use of temporary nursing agencies at skilled nursing facilities
Safeguarding victims of illicit drink spiking
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
Establishing the dentist and dental hygienist compact
Authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment
Prioritizing patient access to care
To eliminate barriers and expand abortion access
Increasing access to ABA services by recognizing assistant level providers
Relative to health equity and community health workers
Relative to growing resources to optimize the utilization of group therapeutic care
Resolve addressing EMS and health care services shortfalls in southeastern Massachusetts
Ensuring access to medical records
To reduce the risks associated with allergic reactions
Relative to newborn infant safe sleep practices
Relative to the closing of hospital essential services
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Relative to staffing at home health and hospice agencies
Relative to acute hospital governance
Assessing healthcare access
Ensuring access to a resident representative in long-term care facilities
Relative to physician assistant interstate compact
Resolve establishing a Norwood Hospital working group
Concerning the regulation of kratom
Relative to type 1 diabetes informational materials for the parents and guardians of students
Relative to Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome
Enabling registered dental hygienists to administer nitrous oxide
Regarding the pediatric palliative care program
Relative to office-based surgical centers
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices
Measuring the impact of Long COVID in the Commonwealth
Regulating surgical assistants
Establishing a naloxone purchase trust fund
Relative to medical records requests
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Connecting veterans with access to breakthrough treatments
Improving pediatric cancer research
Improving Hepatitis C screening
To reduce lung cancer deaths
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
Relative to physician workforce data collection
Relative to smoking cessation agents
Relative to diabetes prevention
Relative to LGBTQ+ health disparities
Relative to enhancing statewide hospital capacity coordination
Relative to provider choice
Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Ensuring access and continuity of care to specialist and hospital services for dually eligible individuals
Relative to nursing career pathways in long term care
Relative to therapeutic psilocybin treatment centers
Requiring automated external defibrillators at sporting events
Relative to burial assistance
Decriminalizing psilocybin as a treatment for PTSD and certain other conditions
To ban internet tobacco sales
Expanding access to perimenopause and menopause care
Relative to organ transplant vehicles
Establishing an advisory committee on the accessibility of fresh food retail in communities throughout the Commonwealth
Relative to a healthier, stronger Massachusetts
Relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
Relative to the theft of graves
Relative to protecting air quality from carbon-emitting energy generators
Improving newborn screening tests
Ensuring home care patient safety
Relative to personal health information portability and accessibility
For healthy kids, healthy futures
Relative to chemicals in food packaging
Supporting survivors through financial assistance
Relative to expanding the newborn screening panel
Relative to the Bean New Deal
Relative to physical therapy
To ensure cleaner air for communities overburdened by outdoor air pollution
Related to the risk of getting cancer due to the consumption of alcohol
Establishing a nursing workforce center
Relative to healthcare worker and first responder safety
Relative to patient identity and privacy protection in waiting rooms
Relative to removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Creating an OBGYN loan repayment grant program
To protect essential health services
Protecting patient safety regarding non-FDA approved drugs
Regulating delivered food
To clarify prescription monitoring program activities
Concerning disposable menstrual products in schools
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
Relative to the promotion of food donation
Relative to chaperones for medical exams
Providing for safe and consensual sensitive examinations
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
Establishing senior psychologist licensure
Relative to health equity and community health workers
Relative to medical health and fitness facilities
Pertaining to women’s health at midlife and public, medical and workplace awareness of the transitional stage of menopause and related chronic conditions
Establishing a Norwood hospital working group
To eliminate fees for the removal of a child’s body by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Relative to patient access to certain health care services
Relative to abandoned remains
Toxic-Free Medical Devices Act of 2025
Wiring medical facilities, nursing homes, and medical training to support safer electromagnetic radiation exposures and to support reduction of other environmental hazards
Providing municipalities to opt out of fluoridation treatments
Relative to fluoride in water warnings
Ensuring safer and secure communications with radiation limits through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute
To create a nicotine free generation
Relative to vaccines and preventing future disease outbreaks
Banning artificial fluoridation schemes
Resolve improving maternal and child health related to hyperemesis gravidarum
To protect youth from the harms of tobacco and e-cigarette products
Relative to tobacco harm-reduction
Relative to modernizing the regulation of clinical laboratories
Relative to gambling addiction
Regulating surgical assistants
Relative to maintenance of certification
Boosting flu prevention for seniors
Relative to protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Relative to creating accessible CNA training
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Relative to public health volunteer responders
Instructing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of absorbing oversight of all “memory care” assisted living facilities and units in the Commonwealth
Removing social security numbers from death certificates
Protecting patients and healthcare workers from exposure to surgical smoke
Relative to proper classification of health care workers during a public health emergency
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication
Relative to patient assessment and notification prior to prescribing certain medications
To improve access to family physicians
Relative to social security numbers on death certificates
Removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
Relative to staffing at home health and hospice agencies
Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance
Relative to anesthesiologist assistants
Expanding access to hygiene products
Establishing a special commission to find the best practices to promote education, awareness, and prevention of Lyme disease
Relative to environmental public health
Establishing a commission on quality patient outcomes and nurse staffing
Protecting the interests of patients in the event of the sale, relocation or closure of certain physician practices
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Relative to expanding access to healthy food choices in vending machines on state property
Repealing the state menthol ban
To strengthen our public health infrastructure to address Alzheimer’s and all dementia
Protecting personal identifying information on records of death
Authorizing Valley Chapel in the town of Uxbridge to construct and operate a columbarium for the disposition of ashes of certain community members
To protect a patient’s right to a support person at health care facilities
To improve health care coordination and safe discharge
Establishing the dentist and dental hygienist compact
Relative to the determination of need of new technology
Relative to opting out of fluoridation
To ensure safe medication administration
Requiring automatic external defibrillator devices in health clubs
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Supporting school-based substance use prevention through evidenced-based positive social norms marketing
Relative to certainty of continuing education for chiropractors
Relative to patient access to information regarding breast reconstructive surgery
To combat V.I.P. syndrome to protect health care integrity and quality
Relative to health care transparency
To conduct a public health study of synthetic drugs in the commonwealth
Prohibiting harmful food dyes in competitive school foods
Putting patients over profits in hospital licensure
Relative to the provision and administration of bronchodilators, spacers, and nebulizers in schools
Expanding healthcare proxy access to medical records
To protect patients with Alzheimer's, dementia, and other psychiatric illnesses
Promoting patient safety and equitable access to care
Ensuring municipal control in public health systems
To improve outcomes for sudden cardiac arrest
To eliminate discrimination of incarcerated persons' participation in life saving programs
Supporting survivors through financial assistance
To address conflicts of interest in the use of temporary nursing agencies at skilled nursing facilities
Establishing a task force to study the sustainability of emergency medical services
Establishing an advisory committee on the accessibility of fresh food retail in communities throughout the Commonwealth
Relative to informed consent for concurrent surgical procedures
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Relative to defining invasive surgical procedures
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
Relative to certified medication aides
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
Relative to end of life options
Relative to toxic-free medical devices
Promoting food safety by prohibiting harmful additives in food products
Promoting radon testing
Establishing a Naloxone Purchase Trust fund
Relative to medical sharps stewardship
Establishing an amputation prevention task force
To ensure cleaner air for communities overburdened by outdoor air pollution
Relative to primary care access
Relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel
Enabling registered dental hygienists to administer nitrous oxide
Relative to including inflammatory breast cancer awareness in nursing education, Marnie's Law
Relative to deceptive trade practices
To establish an amputation prevention task force
Relative to sudden cardiac arrest awareness
Prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors
Relative to the continuing education of podiatrists
Relative to stroke data reporting
Prohibiting the use of lead paint on outdoor structures
To require the disclosure of lead in water pipes
To finance the Betsy Lehman Center’s statewide provider health care safety education pilot program
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
Establishing a nursing workforce center
Relative to requiring trauma kits in public buildings
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Relative to LGBTQ+ health disparities
Relative to growing resources to optimize the utilization of group therapeutic care
Relative to clinical laboratories
Relative to the continuing education of podiatrists
Establishing the psychology interjurisdictional compact
Relative to student heart health
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
Improving pediatric cancer research
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Relative to clinical laboratory testing
Relative to physician assistant interstate compact
Relative to medical physics
Relative to anesthesiologist assistants
Allowing the town of Somerset to prohibit water fluoridation
Relative to establishing protocols for the early detection and treatment of patients with sepsis
Preserving essential services in our hospitals
Protecting Norwood healthcare access
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Relative to safer treatment
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
Relative to the creation of an endometriosis task force
Relative to preventing death by drug overdose
To study the decriminalization of sex work
Enabling trained school personnel to administer life saving epinephrine treatment
Authorizing Massachusetts entry into the interstate medical licensure compact
Directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers
To reduce the risks associated with allergic reactions
Relative to sexual assault counselor task force
Relative to increasing access to epinephrine
Relative to menstrual product ingredient disclosure
To improve access to health care for people with Long COVID
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Measuring the impact of Long COVID in the Commonwealth
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Relative to menstrual product ingredient disclosure
Promoting community immunity
To promote economic opportunity by licensing home kitchens
Establishing statewide food truck regulations
Establishing the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
Establishing statewide food truck regulations
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Prioritizing patient access to care
Establishing the human service transportation (HST) consumer advisory board
Relative to provider choice
Relative to autopsy reports by the medical examiner
To create equitable approaches to public health
To improve indoor air quality for highly-impacted communities
Relative to birth certificate changes
To address state sanitation code violations regarding infestations of rental units
To update postural screenings in schools
Establishing a commission to study quality & accessibility to telehealth
Relative to supporting primary care physicians in the commonwealth
Establishing a fund for the Western Massachusetts Hospital
Exempting Fairview Hospital from determination of need requirements
Relative to the community health initiative payment
Expanding after-death care options
Preserving access to hospital services
To permit the scattering of unclaimed cremated remains at sea
Establishing a special commission to study the use, disposal, and potential re-use of durable medical equipment in hospitals and care facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth
Relative to the operation of crematories by funeral establishments
Relative to natural organic reduction as an environmentally-friendly burial alternative
Relative to patient access to certain health care services
Relative to the closing of hospital essential services
Preserving access to hospital services
Relative to emergency room procedure for prescribing or dispensing pain medication to certain persons on probation
Requiring hospital to maintain services
To increase patient access to certain health care services
Relative to alkaline hydrolysis as an environmentally-friendly burial alternative
To ensure the efficient operation of hospitals
To establish an emergency medical services treatment-in-place (TIP) pilot program
To declare emergency medical services an essential service
Relative to enhancing emergency infant care response
Mandating retrofitting accessibility for all medical facilities
Establishing a special commission on emergency medical services
Relative to modernizing licensure of dietitians and nutritionists
Relative to the organization of EOHHS
Establishing a state-wide drug repository program
Relative to education and prevention of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and other related epilepsy mortalities
Establishing a special commission on avian influenza (H5N1)
To encourage, and improve the level of availability of physicians
Exempting barber shops from certain system sewage flow design criteria
Require a suitable ride home from the hospital for all cognitively impaired discharges
Relative to increased availability of opioid antagonist medication
Relative to prescription eyewear
Promoting patient safety and equitable access to care
Protecting patient safety regarding non-FDA approved drugs
Further protecting identities on death certificates
Establishing a commission to study the encouragement of organ donation
Providing municipalities to opt out of fluoridation treatments
Relative to the civilian certification of military medical personnel
Banning artificial fluoridation schemes
To establish a division of indoor environments within the Department of Public Health
Reducing non-ionizing radiation in early to higher education
Relative to the exposure of public safety officials to HIV
Relative to fluoride in water warnings
To improve patient access to prescription medication
Assessing health care access
Relative to timely issuance of death certificates to funeral directors
To clarify prescription monitoring program activities
Relative to health care worker and first responder safety
Relative to APOL1 mediated kidney disease
Ensuring municipal control in public health systems
Recognizing EMS as a disease dangerous to the public health, requiring inclusion in MAVEN, establishing the Massachusetts EMS registry and requiring biennial reporting as part of population health trends
To encourage, and improve the level of availability of nursing staff
Relative to the availability of prescription medication during an emergency
Establishing a commission to study the promotion of direct primary care services
Relative to fentanyl testing
Relative to Parkinson's Disease public awareness and education
Relative to the safety of fire, police, and emergency medical technicians from contagious diseases
Relative to food delivery transparency
Relative to a study to determine standards of mold levels in multi-unit dwellings
Relative to mold inspection standards
Relative to expanding pathogen testing capabilities for aquaculture
Relative to xylitol labeling
Relative to food labeling
Relative to the Massachusetts lead law and promoting equal access to lead-free housing
To reduce temperature related illness in the Commonwealth
Prohibiting the burning of construction and demolition waste as fuel
Relative to food truck licensure
Banning the sale of kratom
Relative to dental service quotes
Relative to environmental public health
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Relative to well water disclosures
Relative to the Massachusetts lead law and promoting equal access to lead-free housing
Requiring identification of food allergens in eating establishments
Relative to pupil dental health
Promoting efficient environmental public health protections against cancer
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
Concerning the regulation of Kratom
Prohibiting harmful food dyes in competitive school foods
Resolve establishing a sexual assault counselor certification task force
Relative to the creation of an Endometriosis Task Force
Establishing the human service transportation (HST) consumer advisory board
Relative to improving outcomes for sudden cardiac arrest
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
Relative to requiring trauma kits in public buildings
To prevent undue influence on prescriber behavior
To improve indoor air quality for highly-impacted communities
Relative to APOL1 mediated kidney disease
Regulating surgical assistants
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
To improve indoor air quality
Establishing a task force to study the sustainability of emergency medical services
To update postural screenings in schools
Relative to routine childhood immunizations
Advancing health care research and decision-making centered on patients and people with disabilities
Promoting best practices in youth athletic coaching
To restrict the use of polystyrene
To prohibit the use of polystyrene foam food containers
To update postural screenings in schools
Relative to diabetes prevention
Establishing a special commission to study the youth sports industry and other related matters
Establishing an emergency medical services licensure compact
Relative to physician relocation
Prohibiting the participation of healthcare professionals in the torture and abuse of prisoners
Prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors
Relative to local boards of health and the sale of legal tobacco products in the Commonwealth
To create a nicotine free generation
Relative to the definition of disclosure, apology and early offer programs
Relative to health care transparency
To protect the independence of clinical decision making
For healthy kids, healthy futures
Including Krabbe Disease in newborn screening
Relative to LSDs (Lysosomal Storage Disorders) in infants
To protect little lungs
Regarding registered nurse first assistants
Relative to tobacco harm-reduction
Concerning the cardiac health of children and student athletes
To protect the independence of clinical decision making
Relative to ensuring quality healthcare for children
To protect the independence of clinical decision making
Relative to truth in advertising
Relative to improving asthma in schools
Establishing a fetal alcohol spectrum disorders program
To ensure safe medication administration
Protecting patients and health care workers from exposure to surgical smoke
To restrict the use of polystyrene
Removing social security numbers from death certificates
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Relative to athletic training
Relative to student safety in interscholastic athletic activities
Relative to end of life options
Relative to parent names on birth certificates
To reduce infection rate post surgery
Relative to state funding of certain nonprofits
Related to amending birth certificates
Protecting victims of sexual assault
Protecting the health of the mother and a born alive fetus after the second trimester
Improving maternal and child health related to Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Relative to medical records requests
Relative to endometriosis awareness
To protect a patient’s right to a support person at health care facilities
Relative to medical records requests
Ensuring access to medical records
Related to unborn victims of Down Syndrome
Respecting autonomy in name choice for newly married partners
Protecting pregnancy resource centers from taxpayer funded negative ad campaigns
Expanding options for EMT paramedics
Relative to athletic training
Requiring AEDs in clubs and fraternal organizations
For improving patient outcomes across the continuum
Relative to chaperones for medical exams
To increase access to health transportation
Requiring automated external defibrillators at sporting events
Providing for safe and consensual sensitive examinations
Relative to student safety in interscholastic athletic activities
Relative to modernizing licensure of dietitians and nutritionists
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Relative to arbovirus in the Commonwealth
To improve access to health care for people with Long COVID
Relative to the safety of Autistic and Alzheimer's individuals
Prohibiting the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA vaccine, or gene-altering procedure
To protect medical freedom
Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance
Relative to AEDs for athletic fields
To protect Norwood healthcare access
Protecting Norwood healthcare access
Improving pediatric cancer research
Relative to AEDs for athletic fields
Relative to automated external defibrillators in sporting facilities and stadiums
Relative to routine childhood immunizations
Relative to menstrual product ingredient disclosure
Relative to clinical laboratories
To restrict the use of polystyrene
To improve access to breastfeeding care
Expediting the diagnosis and treatment of certain infections
Relative to autopsy reports by the medical examiner
Establishing a special commission to study the youth sports industry and other related matters
To develop a coordinated stroke care system
Relative to patient assessment and notification prior to prescribing certain medications
Requiring automatic external defibrillator devices in health clubs
Relative to baseline concussion testing for student athletes
To improve infection control within long-term care facilities
Prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors
Relative to end of life options
Relative to diabetes prevention
To improve food allergy awareness
Establishing an oral health special commission and needs assessment
To update postural screenings in schools
Relative to removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Improving healthcare delivery for underserved residents of the commonwealth
To require the Department of Public Health to conduct a study of the health impacts of airplane flights on the resident communities that are represented on the Massachusetts Port Authority Community Advisory Committee
Relative to the health care workforce
Improving Hepatitis C screening
To protect youth from the health risks of sugary drinks
To require the disclosure of lead in water pipes
Relative to abandoned remains
Relative to clinical laboratory testing
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Relative to source plasma donation centers
Relative to anesthesiologist assistants
Prohibiting the use of lead paint on outdoor structures
Regarding racism as a public health crisis in Massachusetts
To close the achievement gap by addressing disparities in children's vision
Relative to acupuncture detoxification specialists
Relative to sexual assault counselor task force
Relative to patient access to information regarding breast reconstructive surgery
Protecting the health and safety of people in restaurants
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Relative to preceptorship programs for students of chiropractic
Relative to certified medication aides
Promoting radon testing
Establishing testing protocol and care for victims of date rape drugs
Regarding the pediatric palliative care program
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
Expanding access to the certified nurses’ aides certification process
Establishing the human service transportation (HST) consumer advisory board
Relative to licensure demographics
To increase access to blood donation
Promoting community immunity
Promoting community immunity
To develop a coordinated stroke care system
Relative to vaccines and preventing future disease outbreaks
Relative to the department of public health state public health laboratory campus
Establishing senior psychologist licensure
To improve access to family physicians
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
To strengthen the direct care and dementia workforce
Relative to timely physician licensure
Authorizing Massachusetts entry into the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Relative to food truck licensure
Concerning the legal use of the plant medicine known as psilocybin for therapeutic, spiritual, and medicinal purposes
Preserving essential services in our hospitals
Relative to stroke system of care
To reduce lead poisoning in children
Relative to healthcare worker and first responder safety
Preserving access to hospital services
Requiring automated external defibrillators at sporting events
Relative to essential health services
Assessing healthcare access
To protect essential health services
Relative to determinations of need
Relative to medical health and fitness facilities
Relative to healthcare worker and first responder safety
Preserving access to hospital services
Regulating central service technicians
Connecting veterans with access to breakthrough treatments
Relative to updating the licensure of optometrists
To improve health care workforce development through graduate nursing practice
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
Relative to public health volunteer responders
Ensuring the fair and appropriate distribution of vaccines during a public health emergency
Creating an obesity task force
Relative to medical physics
Relative to acute hospital governance
Reducing barriers to telehealth care
Public health
Relative to revising the Non-Public Ambulance Trust Fund
Requiring immunizations against preventable diseases
Relative to the protection of medical exemptions for immunizations for school attendance
Regulating medical imaging and radiation therapy
Relative to individuals from birth to age twenty-two in need of short-term inpatient skilled nursing and rehabilitation services
Concerning the use of a prescription medicine that contains 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Relative to the community health initiative payment
Relative to sonographers and vascular technologists
Promoting health, safety and sanitation in cities and towns in the Commonwealth
To encourage, and improve the level of availability of physicians
Relative to the definition of disclosure, apology and early offer programs
Relative to lead pipe safety
Relative to health care transparency
Relative to the exposure of public safety officials to HIV
Prohibiting the participation of healthcare professionals in the torture and abuse of prisoners
Relative to translated CNA exams
Directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of incentivizing inpatient psychiatric hospitals to admit patients directly from community behavioral health centers
To promote public safety and certainty related to child deaths
To encourage, and improve the level of availability of nursing staff
Relative to the joint negotiation prohibition for integrated systems
Relative to tobacco harm-reduction
To establish a division of indoor environments within the Department of Public Health
Relative to enhancing statewide hospital capacity coordination
Enabling trained school personnel to administer life saving epinephrine treatment
Creating a nursing advisory board
To promote team based health care
Establishing a commission to study the encouragement of organ donation
Establishing a special commission to study the use, disposal, and potential re-use of durable medical equipment in hospitals and care facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth
Protecting victims of sexual assault
Clarifying participation in athletic safety programs
To update the prescription monitoring program
Enabling trained dental hygienists to administer dermal fillers and botox
To ensure safe medication administration
Relative to the promotion of food donation
Relative to the presence of chaperones
Relative to HLTV 111 tests
Relative to Parkinson's Disease public awareness and education
Requiring identification of food allergens in eating establishments
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Assessing health care access
Relative to well water disclosures
Relative to food labeling
Establishing a task force to study the sustainability of emergency medical services
Relative to requiring trauma kits in public buildings
Establishing a commission on quality patient outcomes and professional nursing practice
Relative to informed consent for concurrent surgical procedures
Recognizing EMS as a disease dangerous to the public health, requiring inclusion in MAVEN, establishing the Massachusetts EMS registry and requiring biennial reporting as part of population health trends
Regarding registered nurse first assistants
Relative to the civilian certification of military medical personnel
To protect toddlers from lead exposure
Relative to truth in advertising
Relative to the permit for removal or transportation of refuse
Relative to non-medical healthcare expenses related to prevention of disease
Improving health care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Relative to limited service clinics
To reduce fraud in prescription drug abuse testing and help prevent substance abuse
To improve outcomes for sudden cardiac arrest
Relative to urgent care centers and MassHealth patients
Promoting efficient environmental public health protections and solutions
Relative to food labeling
Relative to CPR recertifications
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Relative to pupil dental health
To improve patient access to prescription medication
Including Krabbe Disease in newborn screening
Relative to LSDs (Lysosomal Storage Disorders) in infants
Relative to preventing death by drug overdose
Relative to dental service quotes
Relative to physician licensure
To increase patient access to certain health care services
Protecting youth from second hand smoke
To promote economic opportunity by licensing home kitchens
Relative to certainty of continuing education for chiropractors
To permit the scattering of unclaimed cremated remains at sea
Authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment
Permitting ambulances to transport patients to urgent care centers
Prohibiting the burning of construction and demolition waste as fuel
Relative to certified medical assistant administration of immunization
Relative to improving asthma in schools
Relative to hormonal contraceptives
Relative to student safety in interscholastic athletic activities
Governing not for profit hospital system or service operating an ambulance service
Relative to emergency room procedure for prescribing or dispensing pain medication to certain persons on probation
Relative to the charitable donation of not readily marketable food
Expanding after-death care options
Instructing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of absorbing oversight of all “memory care” assisted living facilities and units in the Commonwealth
Promoting patient safety and equitable access to care
Relative to the availability of prescription medication during an emergency
Relative to reciprocity of psychologists
Requiring hospital to maintain services
Exempting barber shops from certain system sewage flow design criteria
Relative to liability protection for disaster volunteers
To create an at home test reporting system in the Commonwealth
To protect little lungs
Respecting autonomy in name choice for newly married partners
Related to amending birth certificates
Relative to local boards of health and the sale of legal tobacco products in the Commonwealth
Relative to the Massachusetts lead law and promoting equal access to lead-free housing
Providing access to patient protection services for all Massachusetts residents
Protecting patients and healthcare workers from exposure to surgical smoke
Relative to dental hygienists
Relative to student heart health
Enhancing podiatric profession's registration and oversight
Relative to parental notification about student health evaluations
Relative to the prescription monitoring program
Relative to protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Relative to videotaping, audiotaping and photographing persons receiving medical treatment
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system
Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to Long COVID related needs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Relative to the definition of podiatry
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Relative to smoking cessation agents
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Regulating surgical assistants
Authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication
Relative to safer treatment for pain
To establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology
Establishing statewide food truck regulations
Supporting access to training on reproductive and gender-affirming care
Establishing senior psychologist licensure
Relative to athletic training
To improve outcomes for individuals with Parkinson’s disease
Updating the regulations governing licensed birth centers in Massachusetts
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
Relative to birthing justice in the Commonwealth
To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
Relative to postpartum depression screening
Relative to conducting fetal and infant mortality review
Promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options
Relative to conducting fetal and infant mortality review
Promoting humane cosmetics and other household products by limiting the use of animal testing
To create equitable approaches to public health
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
To prevent undue influence on prescriber behavior
Relative to pregnancy loss awareness
Promoting best practices in youth athletic coaching
To improve oral health for all Massachusetts residents
Promoting access to midwifery care and out-of-hospital birth options
Relative to postpartum depression screenings
To promote public health through the prevention and wellness trust fund
Relative to athletic training
Updating the regulations governing licensed birth centers in Massachusetts
Relative to LGBTQ health equity
Ensuring access to a resident representative in long-term care facilities
To increase access to blood donation
Relative to modernizing the regulation of clinical laboratories
To enhance hospital care for those with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities
Relative to end of life options
Relative to the Massachusetts maternal mortality and morbidity review committee
To restrict the use of polystyrene
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
To protect Massachusetts public health from PFAS
To prohibit the use of polystyrene foam food containers
Relative to chemicals in food packaging
To strengthen the direct care and dementia workforce
Relative to preceptorship programs for students of chiropractic
Regulating central service technicians
Providing for consumer access to and the right to practice complementary and alternative health care services
Relative to acute hospital governance
To require the disclosure of lead in water pipes
To create equitable approaches to public health
Relative to licensure demographics
Improving healthcare delivery for underserved residents of the Commonwealth
Relative to removing barriers to care for physician assistants
Relative to anesthesiologist assistants
To promote public health through the Prevention and Wellness Trust Fund
To improve food allergy awareness
Relative to the board of registration in naturopathy
To protect youth from the health risks of sugary drinks
Relative to recovery coach licensure
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
To strengthen our public health infrastructure to address alzheimer’s and all dementia
To strengthen our public health infrastructure to address Alzheimer’s and all dementia
Relative to culturally competent and effective health care
To improve outdoor and indoor air quality for communities burdened by pollution
Relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel
To improve outdoor and indoor air quality for communities burdened by pollution
Relative to expanding the newborn screening panel
Improving pediatric cancer research
Expanding options for EMT paramedics
Relative to sudden cardiac arrest awareness
Governing the operation of ambulance services by not-for-profit hospital systems or services
Resolve establishing a special commission to broaden the availability of naloxone
Relative to tobacco harm-reduction
Further regulating the sale of tobacco products
Enabling trained dental hygienists to administer dermal fillers and botox
Establishing a newborn health and safe sleep pilot program
To ban single use plastic applicators
Relative to the determination of need of new technology
Establishing the Lead Poisoning Prevention Trust Fund
Relative to environmental public health
Relative to student safety in interscholastic athletic activities
Relative to expanding access to healthy food choices in vending machines on state property
Relative to health care transparency
Promoting patient safety and equitable access to care
To promote public safety and certainty related to child deaths
Authorizing pharmacists to provide opioid use disorder treatment
Establishing a special commission to find the best practices to promote education, awareness, and prevention of Lyme disease
Relative to liability protection for disaster volunteers
To repeal the state menthol ban
Relative to hormonal contraceptives
Relative to personal health information portability and accessibility
Expanding healthcare proxy access to medical records
To protect youth from the harms of tobacco and e-cigarette products
Relative to environmentally-friendly burial alternatives
To ensure safe medication administration
Enabling trained school personnel to administer life saving epinephrine treatment
Relative to protecting air quality from carbon-emitting energy generators
Regarding racism as a public health crisis in Massachusetts
Regulating surgical assistants
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Relative to color coded patient wristbands
Prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors
To protect patients with Alzheimer's, dementia, and other psychiatric illnesses
Authorizing Valley Chapel in the town of Uxbridge to construct and operate a columbarium for the disposition of ashes of certain community members
Improving newborn screening tests
To improve outcomes for individuals with Parkinson’s disease
To prevent death and disability from stroke
Relative to the Massachusetts lead law and promoting equal access to lead-free housing
Relative to requiring trauma kits in public buildings
Relative to pharmacists as healthcare providers
To combat V.I.P. syndrome to protect health care integrity and quality
To review hospitalization and emergency restraints in involuntary commitment
Relative to the safety of Autistic and Alzheimer's individuals
Relative to a healthier, stronger Massachusetts
Providing safeguards for home healthcare workers
Relative to delivered food
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Relative to diabetes prevention
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
To establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology
Relative to improving outcomes for sudden cardiac arrest
Relative to stroke data reporting
Protecting patients and health care workers from exposure to surgical smoke
Relative to HLTV 111 tests
Relative to certainty of continuing education for chiropractors
Supporting school-based substance use prevention through evidenced-based positive social norms marketing
Regarding death certificates online
Establishing a commission on quality patient outcomes and nurse staffing
Relative to patient identity and privacy protection in waiting rooms
To conduct a public health study of synthetic drugs in the commonwealth
Relative to public safety and public health worker protections
Supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism
Expanding after-death care options
Resolve increasing diagnostic testing preparedness
Relative to dental hygienists
To update postural screenings in schools
Modernizing childhood lead poisoning prevention
Modernizing childhood lead poisoning prevention
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Establishing a special commission to study the youth sports industry
Relative to facilitating the utilization of psychologists on the health care team
Relative to the definition of podiatry
Prohibiting nonconsensual intimate examinations of anesthetized or unconscious patients
Resolve establishing a sexual assault counselor certification task force
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Relative to acupuncture detoxification specialists
Relative to source plasma donation centers
Modernizing birth certificates
Relative to certified medication aides
Modernizing birth certificates
Prohibiting nonconsensual intimate examinations of anesthetized or unconscious patients
Enabling pharmacists to prescribe, dispense and administer PrEP
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services
Protecting the health of the mother and a born alive fetus after the second trimester
Relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services
Related to unborn victims of Down Syndrome
To increase access to disposable menstrual products
Enabling pharmacists to prescribe, dispense and, administer PrEP
Relative to menstrual product ingredient disclosure
Protecting public health and reducing health care costs
Relative to the prescription monitoring program
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Relative to the safer treatment
Establishing an advisory committee on the accessibility of fresh food retail in communities throughout the Commonwealth
Relative to environmentally-friendly burial alternatives
To improve access to breastfeeding care
Relative to HIV prevention access for young adults
Relative to supporting geographically isolated small farms
To define clinical social work practice
Establishing a commission on quality patient outcomes and professional nursing practice
To prevent gun violence
To update postural screenings in schools
To restrict the use of polystyrene
Resolve establishing an advisory committee on the accessibility of fresh food retail in communities throughout the Commonwealth
Relative to emergency medical services oversight
Establishing an oral health special commission and needs assessment
Relative to Medicaid coverage for doula services
Creating an obesity task force and pilot program
To develop a coordinated stroke care system
Establishing a physical therapy licensure compact
Improving child eye health
To improve access to family physicians
Establishing health equity at all levels in government
Relative to healthcare worker and first responder safety
To develop a coordinated stroke care system
Relative to patient access to information regarding breast reconstructive surgery
Further regulating the Commission on Falls Prevention
To support infrastructure needs for livestock farmers
Effectuating equity in COVID-19 vaccination
Relative to a kidney disease prevention and education task force
Effectuating equity in COVID-19 vaccination
To create a timely stroke system of care to save lives
Promoting community immunity
To promote public safety and certainty related to child deaths
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
Relative to videotaping, audiotaping and photographing persons receiving medical treatment
Authorizing a 90-day supply of medically necessary testosterone therapy medication
Relative to pregnancy loss awareness
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Relative to recovery coach licensure
Relative to establishing and implementing a food and health pilot program
Requiring automatic external defibrillator devices in health clubs
Creating an entry-level licensing program to allow applicants to practice under supervision prior to becoming a licensed mental health counselor
Relative to CNA training
Authorizing local control of waste collection hours of operation
Relative to smoking in public housing
Establishing a special commission to study the use, disposal, and potential re-use of durable medical equipment in hospitals and care facilities under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth
Relative to the civilian certification of military medical personnel
Relative to training for certain medical professional about eating disorders
To update the prescription monitoring program
Relative to sole EMS providers
Relative to the operation of crematories by funeral establishments
Requiring labeling of allergens in prepared foods
Relative to the availability of prescription medication during an emergency
Relative to certainty of continuing education for chiropractors
Relative to the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems
Relative to the immunization registry
Instructing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of absorbing oversight of all “memory care” assisted living facilities and units in the Commonwealth
Relative to improving asthma in schools
Governing not for profit hospital system or service operating an ambulance service
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Protecting victims of sexual assault
Relative to the charitable donation of not readily marketable food
Creating a commission to consider the Commonwealth's involvement in licensure compacts
Relative to medical health and fitness facilities
Relative to hospital medical staffs
To reduce atmospheric pollution
Relative to local boards of health and the sale of legal tobacco products in the Commonwealth
To protect youth from the harms of tobacco and E-cigarette products
Establishing a Parkinson's disease registry
Relative to Parkinson's Disease public awareness and education
Relative to the joint negotiation prohibition for integrated systems
To permit the scattering of unclaimed cremated remains at sea
Relative to pharmacy testing
Providing for informed consent for opioid treatment for pain
Establishing a special commission to study the integration of support groups into our healthcare system
To promote local agriculture and student nutrition
Relative to liability for optometrists and ophthalmologists for the negligent dilation of the pupils of a patient
Establishing a PSAP nurse triage pilot program
Directing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to study the feasibility of reevaluating the process of testing for concussions and similar traumatic brain injuries
Related to unborn victims of Down Syndrome
Relative to requiring trauma kits in public buildings
To prohibit the sale of "energy drinks" to persons under the age of 18
Relative to do-not-resuscitate orders
Relative to the presence of chaperones
Exempting barber shops from certain system sewage flow design criteria
Relative to dental hygienists
To establish a division of indoor environments within the Department of Public Health
Relative to preceptorship programs for students of chiropractic
Relative to dental service quotes
Relative to the burial of pets
Protecting youth from second hand smoke
Relative to expanding the availability of sharps disposal sites
Further regulating the sale of tobacco products
Relative to improving outcomes for sudden cardiac arrest
Prohibiting the participation of healthcare professionals in the torture and abuse of prisoners
Permitting ambulances to transport patients to urgent care centers
Relative to athletic training
Relative to medical physics
Relative to reciprocity of psychologists
Relative to home health and hospice aides
Including Krabbe Disease in newborn screening
Relative to emergency room procedure for prescribing or dispensing pain medication to certain persons on probation
Creating a commission to study the need to reduce salt and sugar content in meals served in restaurants, schools, and public spaces
To protect little lungs
To improve access to family physicians
Relative to the storage of epinephrine at schools
Relative to the prescription monitoring program
Expanding health care proxy access to medical records
Enabling pharmacists to prescribe, dispense and administer PrEP
Relative to acupuncture detoxification specialists
Relative to personal health information portability and accessibility
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Relative to a specialty pharmacy pilot program for Urology
Relative to the reform of the personal care attendant system
To establish a pilot program for specialty pharmacy in urology
Regulating central service technicians
Relative to chemicals in food packaging
To strengthen the worker voice in hospital care planning
Relative to baseline concussion testing for student athletes
Restricting toxic PFAS chemicals in consumer products to protect our health
Relative to high school sports injury and health data
To require public universities to provide medication abortion
To prohibit the use of polystyrene foam food containers
Relative to safety and health at athletic recreation facilities
To expedite physician licensure
Relative to athletic training
Relative to patient identity and privacy protection in waiting rooms
Relative to patient assessment and notification prior to prescribing certain medications
To promote the option of alkaline hydrolysis (AH)
Relative to health care transparency
To improve infection control within long-term care facilities
Relative to HIV prevention access for young adults
Prohibiting the sale of dextromethorphan to minors
Relative to diabetes prevention
Ensuring access to a resident representative in long-term care facilities
Relative to smoking cessation agents
To expand access to Naloxone
To protect youth from the health risks of sugary drinks
Relative to source plasma donation centers
To expand naloxone access
Regulating surgical assistants
Decreasing food waste by standardizing the date labeling of food
Modernizing childhood lead poisoning prevention
To restore integrity in the marketing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices
To reduce exposure to BPA
Relative to patient safety in nursing homes
To prevent undue influence on prescriber behavior
Relative to the safety of Autistic and Alzheimer's individuals
Relative to food labeling
Resolve to establish a commission to study the health impacts from land based wind turbines to protect the health of the citizens of the commonwealth
Relative to delivered food
Relative to the determination of need of new technology
Mitigating COVID-19 transmission among children and families
Relative to the sustainability of public health dental hygienists through adequate reimbursements
Relative to monitoring dry casks of spent nuclear fuel
Relative to dentistry licensure examinations
To reduce healthcare costs by promoting non-biased prescriber education
Promoting radon testing
Relative to hormonal contraceptives
Relative to collaborative drug therapy management optimization
Relative to diabetes prevention
Relative to establishing and implementing a Food and Health Pilot Program
Relative to recovery coach licensure
Relative to HIV routine screening and care
To reduce incidence and death from pancreatic cancer
To define clinical social work practice
Relative to newborn screenings for congenital cytomegalovirus
To ban single use plastic applicators
Relative to tobacco harm-reduction
Relative to newborn infant products
Relative to students of chiropractic
Relative to essential health services
To preserve the eternal bonds between people and their animals
Relative to COVID-19 vaccination preregistration
Resolve relative to the establishment of a joint oversight committee on personal protective equipment
Relative to preceptorship programs for students of chiropractic
Streamlining COVID-19 vaccination sign-up in Massachusetts
Further regulating the sale of tobacco products
To combat V.I.P. syndrome to protect health care integrity and quality
Supporting school-based substance use prevention through evidenced-based positive social norms marketing
Relative to uniform HIPAA standards
Relative to the immunization registry
To promote healthy communities and the environment
Relative to expanding access to healthy food choices in vending machines on state property
Resolve establishing a special commission to broaden the availability of naloxone
Relative to color coded patient wristbands
Establishing a newborn health and safe sleep pilot program
Relative to health care liens and consumer protection
Relative to safe patient handling and mobility in certain health facilities
Resolve establishing a sexual assault counselor certification task force
Relative to accelerating improvements to the local and regional public health system to address disparities in the delivery of public health services
To improve food allergy awareness
Prohibiting the use of lead paint on outdoor structures
To require the disclosure of lead in water pipes
To require the disclosure of lead in water pipes
Modernizing childhood lead poisoning prevention
Improving health care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities including autism
Prohibiting non consensual pelvic examinations
Regarding the pediatric palliative care program
Promoting the health and well-being of mothers and infants
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
Protecting children from harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements
To update postural screenings in schools
To increase access to disposable menstrual products in prisons, homeless shelters, and public schools
Regulating central service technicians