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type: "Bill"
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title: "An Act to protect access to confidential healthcare"
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description: "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)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
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legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
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session: "190th"
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identifier: "S 2296"
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citation: "Massachusetts S 2296 (190th)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Ways and Means"]
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version_count: 1
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2018-02-08"
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last_action: "2018-03-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a2b5535-d4bb-4160-994a-dd891d0ac979"
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source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2296"
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source_hash: "4919149f16e2373d71ce65d8f96c98727f1d4edf44fcffd04f3902b5d1afd67f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
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---
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# Massachusetts S 2296 (190th) — An Act to protect access to confidential healthcare
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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).
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S2296.pdf)
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## Sponsors
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- Senate Committee on Ways and Means — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-02-08** Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means
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- **2018-02-08** Recommended new draft of S591
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- **2018-02-14** Substituted for S591
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- **2018-02-14** Amendment #2 (Tarr) adopted `amendment-passage`
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- **2018-02-14** Amendment #3 (Spilka) adopted `amendment-passage`
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- **2018-02-14** Ordered to a third reading
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- **2018-02-14** Read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-15** Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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
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- **2018-02-28** Rules suspended
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- **2018-02-28** Read second, amended by substitution of a new text (H4256) and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
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- **2018-02-28** Rules suspended
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- **2018-02-28** Read third `reading-3`
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- **2018-02-28** Amendment 4 adopted `amendment-passage`
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- **2018-02-28** Amendment 5 rejected `amendment-failure`
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- **2018-02-28** Passed to be engrossed - 139 YEAS to 14 NAYS (See YEA and NAY in Supplement, No. 313) `passage`
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- **2018-03-15** Rules suspended
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- **2018-03-15** Senate concurred in the House amendment with a further amendment -see Roll Call #329 (Yeas 38 to Nays 0)
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- **2018-03-19** Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-21** Rules suspended
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- **2018-03-21** House concurred in the Senate amendment
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- **2018-03-22** Enacted `passage`
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- **2018-03-22** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
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- **2018-03-30** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 63 of the Acts of 2018 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1a2b5535-d4bb-4160-994a-dd891d0ac979`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).
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