An Act protecting patients and healthcare workers from exposure to surgical smoke
Filed by James K. Hawkins · 18 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
H2442 · Bill · docket HD1732
8 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 |
| 2025-06-06 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 06/11/2025 from 09:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1 |
| 2025-09-11 | House | Reporting date extended to Thursday, October 9, 2025 |
| 2025-10-16 | 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 |
2 committee votes
Public Health (J) · 2025-10-08 12:00 · Shall the bill be reported favorably?
Health Care Financing (J) · 2026-04-09 13:34 · Favorable Report
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
|---|
| 2025-06-11 | Public Health (J) | A-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
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.