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Committee advances bill moving certain daycare immunization rules from agency rule into statute
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after debate over whether moving existing administrative rules into statute would limit public rulemaking and could force exclusions of children during outbreaks.
Representative Healy presented House Bill 290 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, saying the bill would move existing public-health rules into statute so the department could not issue temporary rules outside the legislative session. “By doing this, we're putting the control back into the elected officials,” Representative Healy said.
The bill would place several existing rules that had previously been enforced through administrative rulemaking into statute. Key provisions discussed include a section that would allow a licensed daycare facility to exclude a child “not meeting the conditions of this section” until the child is in compliance, and language…
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