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Committee advances bill updating DHW references, shifting some public‑pool oversight to local health districts
Summary
House Bill 202 would update statute references that still point to the Department of Health and Welfare, replace some state rulemaking for public pools with local health‑district authority, and correct references to agencies spun off from DHW.
House Bill 202 would update Idaho law to remove outdated references to the Department of Health and Welfare and transfer several obsolete state duties to agencies created after those provisions were written, a department official told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.
The committee voted to send the bill to the Senate floor with a due pass recommendation after the department described section‑by‑section changes and senators asked questions about local control and specific provisions.
Jared Larson, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Chief at the Department of Health and Welfare, said the bill corrects statutory references left over from earlier…
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