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Bill	An Act to protect access to confidential healthcare	Senate, February 8, 2018 -- The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill to protect access to confidential healthcare (Senate, No. 591),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2296).	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	190th	S 2296	Massachusetts S 2296 (190th)	bill		enacted	Senate Committee on Ways and Means	1	25	0	2018-02-08	2018-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/1a2b5535-d4bb-4160-994a-dd891d0ac979	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2296	4919149f16e2373d71ce65d8f96c98727f1d4edf44fcffd04f3902b5d1afd67f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts S 2296 (190th) — An Act to protect access to confidential healthcare

Senate, February 8, 2018 -- The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Senate Bill to protect access to confidential healthcare (Senate, No. 591),-- reports, recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting a new draft with the same title (Senate, No. 2296).

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2018-02-08 Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
• 2018-02-08 Recommended new draft of S591
• 2018-02-14 Substituted for S591
• 2018-02-14 Amendment #2 (Tarr) adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-02-14 Amendment #3 (Spilka) adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-02-14 Ordered to a third reading
• 2018-02-14 Read third and passed to be engrossed reading-3
• 2018-02-15 Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-28 Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting with the amendment (H4256) pending
• 2018-02-28 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-28 Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H4256) and ordered to a third reading reading-2
• 2018-02-28 Rules suspended
• 2018-02-28 Read third reading-3
• 2018-02-28 Amendment 4 adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-02-28 Amendment 5 rejected amendment-failure
• 2018-02-28 Passed to be engrossed - 139 YEAS to 14 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 313) passage
• 2018-03-15 Rules suspended
• 2018-03-15 Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment -see Roll Call #329 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)
• 2018-03-19 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 Rules suspended
• 2018-03-21 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2018-03-22 Enacted passage
• 2018-03-22 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2018-03-30 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 63 of the Acts of 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a2b5535-d4bb-4160-994a-dd891d0ac979. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).