# Massachusetts H 4489: to ensure affordable prescription medications through accountability standards

Massachusetts H 4489, to ensure affordable prescription medications through accountability standards, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Joint Committee on Financial Services; status in committee, last action 2026-06-17 (Reporting date extended to Friday, July 31, 2026) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 4489
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: to ensure affordable prescription medications through accountability standards
- Status: in committee
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-09-18
- Last action: 2026-06-17, Reporting date extended to Friday, July 31, 2026
- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services
- Cosponsors: 11
- Subjects: Financial Services, Health Care Financing
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 1 (11 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Financial Services
- Cosponsor: Christine P. Barber (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Hadley Luddy (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James C. Arena-DeRosa (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James J. O'Day (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: James K. Hawkins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Jason M. Lewis (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Mary S. Keefe (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Mike Connolly (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Natalie M. Higgins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Patrick Joseph Kearney (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Tommy Vitolo (Democratic), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-09-08 | committee | Committee Redraft: Favorable as redrafted report on pharmacy | pass | 11 | 0 |   |

## Actions (6)

- 2026-06-17: Reporting date extended to Friday, July 31, 2026 (House)
- 2026-03-19: Reporting date extended to Monday, June 15, 2026 (House)
- 2025-12-08: Reporting date extended to Wednesday, March 18, 2026 (House)
- 2025-09-18: Reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on Health Care Financing (House)
- 2025-09-18: New draft of H1092 (House)
- 2025-09-18: Reported from the committee on Financial Services (House)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4489.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5429: An Act providing injured on duty compensation to Chelmsford firefighter Nicholas Spinale (second reading)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4489.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4489-194 (as of 2026-11-01).