Joint Committee on Public Health Hearing

The Joint Committee on Public Health will hold a hearing on bills relating to professional licensure & scope of practice and agencies, including the below bill filed by Senator Comerford. The full list of bills is here.

We invite you to submit testimony and/or testify on bills you care about. Testimony on bills in this hearing should be addressed to Committee Co-Chairs Senator Jo Comerford and Representative Marjorie Decker.

Those who wish to testify, submit written testimony, or both, may sign up and/or submit written testimony by completing and submitting this form. Persons who do not have a Google account or do not wish to use the Google form can submit testimony and/or sign up to testify by emailing JointCommittee.PublicHealth@malegislature.gov.

Persons planning to testify live at the hearing must sign up no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 13. For those who have signed up to testify, Legislative Information Services will provide a link to join the public hearing. Individuals testifying should limit their remarks to 3 minutes. All panels should limit their testimony to a total of 6 minutes.

Those who plan to submit only written testimony may do so before or after the deadline to sign up to testify.

Those who do not plan to testify but want to watch the public hearing should view the live stream under the Hearings & Events section of the legislative website.

If you have any questions, you may email Kathleen.Hornby@mahouse.gov and Brian.Rosman@masenate.gov.