An Act prioritizing patient access to care

Filed by Christine P. Barber · 35 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page

H2370 · Bill · docket HD2651

13 actions

In the order the legislature recorded them.

Date	Branch	Action
2025-02-27	House	Referred to the committee on Public Health
2025-02-27	Senate	Senate concurred
2025-06-30	Joint	Hearing scheduled for 07/10/2025 from 09:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1
2025-10-09	House	Reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing
2025-12-08	House	Reporting date extended to Wednesday, March 18, 2026
2026-03-19	House	Reporting date extended to Monday, June 15, 2026
2026-04-15	House	Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2026-07-22	House	Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5595
2026-07-22	House	Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending
2026-07-22	House	Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending
2026-07-22	House	Rules suspended
2026-07-22	House	Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means)
2026-07-22	House	New draft substituted, see H5595

1 adopted

No.	Title	Moved by	Outcome
House 1	An Act prioritizing patient access to care	House Committee on Ways and Means	Adopted

Public Health (J) · 2025-09-26 14:30 · Shall the bill be reported favorably?

Health Care Financing (J) · 2026-04-09 12:59 · Favorable Report

Ways and Means (H) · 2026-07-21 10:45 · H.2370 “An Act prioritizing patient access to care” as amended

Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.

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

Date	Committee	Where	Status
2025-07-10	Public Health (J)	A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston	Completed

Action	Committee
Favorable	Public Health (J)
Favorable	Health Care Financing (J)
Favorable with Amendment	Ways and Means (H)
Place in OD	Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H)

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.