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Health and Welfare committee introduces several bills, sends procedural update for behavioral health to floor
Summary
The House Health and Welfare Committee introduced multiple request statutes on pharmacy board membership, long‑term care monitoring, medical assistant oversight, CRNA practice and immunization rules, and sent House Bill 220 — a technical update to Health and Welfare fee and rule language tied to contracts — to the House floor with a due‑pass.
The House Health and Welfare Committee introduced several request statutes (RS) and sent House Bill 220 to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation during the same meeting.
Representative Dore Healy introduced a package of RS items that the committee moved to introduce without extended debate. RS32350 would add pharmacy board membership to include a pharmacy technician and an additional pharmacist to keep an odd number of members; RS32382 would permit electronic monitoring in long‑term care facilities (sometimes called "Esther's Law" in other states), which a sponsor described as establishing guidelines to protect residents and families; RS32401 would allow medical assistants to be supervised by nurses with appropriate training; RS324225 would clarify autonomy and liability for certified registered nurse anesthetists; and RS32247C1 transitions existing immunization rules into statute without creating new immunization requirements, a sponsor said.
Most introductions were moved and approved by voice vote. Representative McCann moved introduction of RS32350; Representative Wheeler moved introduction of RS32382; Representative Rubel moved RS32401; Representative McCann moved RS324225; and Representative McCann moved RS32247C1. Committee members asked occasional clarifying questions; Representative Kaler asked about elder abuse statistics in connection with RS32382 and a sponsor said Idaho ‑specific data can be provided by the department.
Representative Marco Erickson described House Bill 220 as a cleanup and modernization of fee‑determination language in department code tied to behavioral health contracts (the sponsor cited the contract with Magellan). Erickson said the bill eliminates an obsolete sliding‑scale fee section, moves rules governing designated examiners and dispositions into a consolidated statutory section and removes certification rules for peer support and family support partners from that code section because those matters are handled through contract provisions. The committee voted to send HB 220 to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
All introduced RS items were recorded as introduced by voice vote during the meeting and the committee concluded by sending HB 220 to the floor.
