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Massachusetts State Senator Richard T. Moore is the Senate Chair of the newly formed Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. In this position, he is focusing on issues affecting the health of the people of Massachusetts, and complementing the work of the Senate Ways and Means Committee in analyzing health care related legislation and budget issues. Nearly 40% of the state budget is related to health care, which is also the state’s second largest industry.
As Senate Chair of the Legislature’s former Joint Committee on Health Care over the past six years, Senator Moore played a key role in the passage of nearly every piece of health care legislation enacted in Massachusetts since 1999. In the current session, he been given an even greater role as Chair of the Committee on Health Care Financing, since the committee has oversight jurisdiction for health care legislation reported from the Public Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Elderly Affairs, and Community Development and Small Business Committees. Among his major legislative accomplishments are: the establishment of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, enactment of legislation to permit electronic prescribing, the reorganization of the health-related licensing boards with the Department of Public Health, the Patient Bill of Rights, Prescription Advantage drug assistance for seniors and the disabled, MassMedLine drug information and referral service, a statewide workplace smoking ban, and funding for an enhanced school health program. Senator Moore was elected to the Senate in 1996, following a stint as Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C. and as a nine term state representative. He currently represents 14 communities in the Worcester and Norfolk senatorial district. An educator by training, Senator Moore is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Graduate Program at Bridgewater State College. He is a former Associate Dean of Students (Assumption College) and Assistant to the President (Bentley College), and is a Trustee of Nichols College and former Trustee of Quinsigamond Community College. The senator as serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures and is also a member of the National Council of the American Society for Public Administration, the National Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Our Schools, and the National Advisory Committee on Homeland Security. |
