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Bill would clarify tribal representation on local boards of health
Summary
The Senate Local Government Committee heard House Bill 1946, sponsored by Representative Natasha Hill, which would require local boards of health and health district boards to allow a tribal representative from each federally recognized tribe holding reservation or trust lands in a county, or from each urban Indian organization registered as a 501(c)(3) that serves American Indian and Alaska Native people in the county.
The Senate Local Government Committee heard House Bill 1946, sponsored in the House by Representative Natasha Hill, which seeks to clarify tribal membership on local boards of health and health district boards.
Committee staffer Karen Epps summarized current law: counties are responsible for establishing a county health department or health district and each local public-health jurisdiction is governed by a local board of health. Current membership rules require county commissioners or representatives from the county legislative authority and unelected members from three categories (health-care providers, residents who are consumers of public health, and other community stakeholders); those categories must be balanced in specified ways and approved by a majority of the board of county commissioners. Epps said the bill would add that when a federally recognized tribe holds reservation or trust lands in a county, or when an urban Indian organization registered as a 501(c)(3) serves American…
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