republic-os/legislation/us/states/ma/193rd/h-4918.md

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Bill	An Act relative to medically necessary breast screenings and exams for equity and early detection	An Act relative to medically necessary breast screenings and exams for equity and early detection	us/states/ma	Massachusetts General Court	193rd	H 4918	Massachusetts H 4918 (193rd)	bill		enacted		1	19	0	2024-07-25	2024-11-13	openstates	ocd-bill/56fb64cf-e7ea-4264-b4cd-5e1067070189	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H4918	811bd0c2478b489adf7f7a5749c958dfb5c9b640b6029bde8460f0cb67d1707f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ma

Massachusetts H 4918 (193rd) — An Act relative to medically necessary breast screenings and exams for equity and early detection

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• House Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
• Adrian C. Madaro — cosponsor (person)
• Adrianne Pusateri Ramos — cosponsor (person)
• Brian M. Ashe — cosponsor (person)
• Brian W. Murray — cosponsor (person)
• Bruce E. Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Edward R. Philips — cosponsor (person)
• Hannah Kane — cosponsor (person)
• Jacob R. Oliveira — cosponsor (person)
• James M. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Jason M. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Jay D. Livingstone — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Ann Giannino — cosponsor (person)
• John Barrett, III — cosponsor (person)
• Judith A. Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Kate Lipper-Garabedian — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay N. Sabadosa — cosponsor (person)
• Lydia Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Mindy Domb — cosponsor (person)
• Natalie M. Blais — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Paul McMurtry — cosponsor (person)
• Richard M. Haggerty — cosponsor (person)
• Rob Consalvo — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney M. Elliott — cosponsor (person)
• Russell E. Holmes — cosponsor (person)
• Samantha Montaño — cosponsor (person)
• Sean Garballey — cosponsor (person)
• Simon Cataldo — cosponsor (person)
• Smitty Pignatelli — cosponsor (person)
• Tommy Vitolo — cosponsor (person)
• Tram T. Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• Tricia Farley-Bouvier — cosponsor (person)
• William F. MacGregor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-07-25 Reported from the committee on House Ways and Means
• 2024-07-25 Pending new draft of H4410
• 2024-07-25 New draft of H4410
• 2024-07-25 Ordered to a third reading
• 2024-07-25 Rules suspended
• 2024-07-25 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-08-05 Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2024-10-24 Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2971 committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-10-24 Rules suspended
• 2024-10-24 Read second reading-2
• 2024-10-24 Amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text of S2971 amendment-passage
• 2024-10-24 Ordered to a third reading
• 2024-10-28 Taken out of the Orders of the Day
• 2024-10-28 Read third and passed to be engrossed passage, reading-3
• 2024-10-30 Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading referral-committee
• 2024-10-31 House concurred in the Senate amendment
• 2024-10-31 Enacted passage
• 2024-11-04 Enacted and laid before the Governor passage
• 2024-11-13 Signed by the Governor, Chapter 231 of the Acts of 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56fb64cf-e7ea-4264-b4cd-5e1067070189. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).