# Massachusetts S 871: An Act ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism

Massachusetts S 871, An Act ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) Senate bill sponsored by John F. Keenan (Democratic); status in committee, last action 2026-01-29 (Accompanied a study order, see S2931) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 871
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act ensuring equal access to medical treatments essential for people with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or autism
- Status: in committee
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-02-27
- Last action: 2026-01-29, Accompanied a study order, see S2931
- Sponsor: John F. Keenan (Democratic)
- Cosponsors: 9
- Subjects: Health Care Financing
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: John F. Keenan (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: James B. Eldridge (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: James K. Hawkins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Manny Cruz (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Michael D. Brady (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Michael O. Moore (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Mike Connolly (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Patrick M. O'Connor (Republican), Senate
- Cosponsor: Paul R. Feeney (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Pavel M. Payano (Democratic), Senate

## Actions (4)

- 2026-01-29: Accompanied a study order, see S2931 (Senate)
- 2025-06-24: Hearing scheduled for 07/01/2025 from 10:00 AM-12:30 PM in Gardner Auditorium (legislature)
- 2025-02-27: House concurred (House)
- 2025-02-27: Referred to the committee on Health Care Financing (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S871.pdf)

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- 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 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)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S871.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-S871-194 (as of 2026-11-01).