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Health & Welfare committee reviews incoming house bills, flags GA housing and hospital workplace-safety measures as priorities
Summary
Committee members reviewed a long list of house and senate bills expected to land in the Senate Health & Welfare Committee, identified General Assistance housing and a hospital workplace-violence bill as priorities, and planned budget briefings and contingency tracking of federal changes to Medicaid and SNAP.
The Senate Health & Welfare Committee spent most of its March 21 meeting reviewing bills expected from the House and discussing priorities for the remainder of the session, with a focus on General Assistance housing, hospital workplace safety, prescribing authority for doctoral-level psychologists, and regulatory changes for hospitals.
The committee chair said the General Assistance housing bill is “critically important” and predicted the panel would need to spend time resolving how the program will operate, citing ongoing motel/hotel placements and complex budgeting over multiple years. The chair added that the workplace-violence-in-hospitals bill (H259) and a bill on prescribing by doctoral-level psychologists (H237) are bills “we probably want to take seriously,” and that the committee would also review a house bill on…
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