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Health and Welfare director asks committee to clear 150 obsolete code sections in HB 91
Summary
House Bill 91, presented by Department of Health and Welfare Director Alex Adams, would repeal roughly 150 obsolete or inoperative sections of Idaho law. Adams told the committee the deletions have no fiscal impact and are intended to declutter state code; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the Health and Welfare Committee that House Bill 91 would remove approximately 150 obsolete code sections from department statutes.
Adams said the deletions include defunct committees, grants with no current funding and “arcane” provisions such as a historical requirement to buy newspaper ads to shame adulterated‑oil manufacturers. He described the change as decluttering statutory text so the code better reflects…
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