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House behavioral health committee advances multiple Senate bills to the floor with due‑pass recommendations
Summary
The House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care approved work‑session actions to move several Senate bills — including measures on medical examiners, volunteer emeritus licenses, pharmacists' COVID testing authority and Medicaid eligibility for some foster youth — to the House floor with due‑pass recommendations.
The House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care voted in work sessions Tuesday to advance a series of Senate bills to the House floor with due‑pass recommendations, acting on a batch of mostly technical or narrowly targeted measures after brief staff summaries and no extended debate.
Among the bills advanced were Senate Bill 536 (amendment dash‑1 clarifying certification of entities that certify pathologists and a requirement that certifying entities be approved by the state medical examiner advisory board), which the committee amended and adopted; Senate Bill 873 (repeal of the Oregon Medical Board’s volunteer emeritus license); Senate Bill 295A (repealing the sunset that…
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