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Senate committee advances health-care bill after trimming transfer-agreement requirement, shortening sunset
Summary
House Bill 799 HD2 SD1 was recommended to pass with amendments: striking a written transfer-agreement requirement for transfers from ambulatory facilities to hospitals and shortening the bill's sunset to June 30, 2028; members noted technical edits and an incorrect effective date in the draft.
The Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection on April 1 recommended passing House Bill 799 HD2 SD1 with amendments that remove a proposed written transfer-agreement requirement and shorten the measure's sunset to June 30, 2028.
Committee staff told members the measure had been deferred from an earlier hearing and that members and other chairs had negotiated compromise language. The recommended amendments remove subsection (b) in the bill's Section 2 (which would have required a written transfer agreement to move a patient…
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