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An Act relative to requiring that blind and cross-disability agencies receiving state funding from the Massachusetts state fiscal budget work in conjunction with pharmacies and pharmacists across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to set practices to put information contained on prescription medication labels into accessible format for those who are print challenged. This shall also include public schools, state community colleges, state senior colleges, or universities that offer English as a second language, ESL programs.

Filed by Diana DiZoglio  ·  2 cosponsors  ·  188th General Court  ·  the legislature's own page

H1937  ·  Bill  ·  docket HD3041

4 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

DateBranchAction
2013-01-22HouseReferred to the committee on Public Health
2013-01-22SenateSenate concurred
2013-04-02JointHearing scheduled for 04/02/2013 from 12:00 PM-05:00 PM in B-1
2014-06-09HouseAccompanied a study order, see H4147

Public hearing

House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.

DateCommitteeWhereStatus
2013-04-02Public Health (J)Wilmington Public High School, 161 Church Street, WilmingtonCompleted

Committee actions

ActionCommittee
AccompaniedPublic Health (J)

Cosponsors

In the order filed.

Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.