2025 Advocacy in Action - September 30, 2025
Nurses from across the Commonwealth as we learned about grassroots advocacy, met legislative leaders, and lobbied state legislators!

NEWS from the MA State House News Service 9.30.2025
Spilka: Health care reform still on Senate’s to-do list
Nurses press for surgical smoke machine mandate

^{2025 Advocacy in Action!  with Senator Jo Comerford}

The specific legislation we are advocating for is non-partisan and benefits the nursing community as a whole as well as the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Senate President Karen Spilka

Senator Cindy Friedman

1. S1543/H2397  An Act establishing a nursing workforce center (one pager)
2. S1572/H766   An Act relative to acute hospital and nursing home governance (one pager)
3. S1482/H2442 An Act protecting patients and health care workers from exposure to surgical smoke (one pager)

ANAMASS 2025-2026 ANAMASS Legislative Agenda

Senator James Eldridge	Representative Christopher Worrell	Senator John Cronin
Office of Senator Pavel Payano	Representative Ted Phillips	Representative Lindsay Sabadosa