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House Human Services committee tables HB 783 after adding $1.5M-per-year implementation appropriation
Summary
The House Human Services Committee added two amendments to House Bill 783—one narrowing the definition of "medically necessary" and one adding a $1.5 million-per-year appropriation—then voted to table the bill for more time.
The House Human Services Committee on an unspecified date added two amendments to House Bill 783 and then voted to table the bill, delaying further committee action.
Committee members adopted an amendment requested by Representative Rosenzweig that narrows the meaning of the term "medically necessary" in the bill to a diagnosis of diabetes, Class 3 obesity, or polycystic ovarian syndrome. A later amendment, requested by Representative Gillette and explained to the committee by staff member M. S. Allen, adds an appropriation of $1,500,000 from the state general fund to the Department of Administration for each fiscal year of the biennium beginning July 1, 2025. Committee staff said that structure makes the total appropriation $3,000,000 over the biennium, that the funds are for state implementation costs tied to the act, and that any unspent funds from the first fiscal year may not carry into the second fiscal year.
After the amendment that added the appropriation was put into the text, a motion was made to pass HB 783 as amended. Vice Chair Howe, describing the measure as important and saying the committee wanted to "get it right," offered a substitute motion to table the bill so members would have more time. The committee tried a voice vote on the substitute motion and the motion to table passed by voice vote; the transcript records only that the motion passed, without a roll-call tally.
Because the bill was tabled, no final passage occurred and no vote tally for passage is recorded in the transcript. Committee discussion in the hearing focused on the diagnostic limits in the amendment and on funding logistics for implementing the statutory changes. Staff clarified that the appropriation is one-time for the biennium and is restricted to state implementation costs.
The committee chair closed the executive session and noted members would reconvene later; the transcript records that the HHS committee was adjourned and would meet again on the following Monday (dates not specified in the transcript).
