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Votes at a glance: committee actions on multiple health and workforce bills
Summary
The committee recorded votes on several bills during the session. This roundup lists each bill the committee voted on in the transcript excerpt, with the committee outcome and a one-line description.
This summary lists distinct bills that the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted on in the provided transcript excerpt. For contested items, see standalone articles in this package.
- Senate Bill 134 — Approved by committee. Description: Changes a commission’s meeting frequency from 12 times per year at $500 per meeting to four times per year at $100 per meeting (transcript excerpt: motion carried, "Ayes have it").
- Senate Bill 50 — Approved by committee. Description: Establishes an ALC subcommittee to study benefit cliffs and recommend fixes ahead of the 2027 session.
- House Bill 1447 — Approved by committee. Description: Technical correction related to on-site wastewater licensing and clarifies plumbing/septic installer licensing.
- House Bill 1478 — Approved by committee. Description: Eliminates obsolete State Board of Disease Intervention Specialist duties transferred to Department of Health (bill from Department of Health; no opposition recorded).
- Senate Bill 137 — Approved by committee. Description: Allows health-care providers to store medical records in digital format provided records are reproducible and legible.
- Senate Bill 180 — Approved by committee. Description: Exempts existing and future PACE organizations from additional home-health licensure requirements so they can deliver services in home settings.
- House Bill 1166 — Approved by committee. Description: Clarifies epinephrine (including nasal formulations) may be used in schools for anaphylaxis under prescription protocols.
- House Bill 1167 — Approved by committee. Description: Clarifies nurse practitioners may authorize diabetic orthotic footwear; aligns practice with recent interpretation.
- House Bill 1213 — Approved by committee (see separate article). Description: Modernizes athletic trainer scope and adds physical therapists to approved concussion providers.
- House Bill 1132 — Failed in committee. Description: Would have expanded APRNs’ authority to prescribe Schedule II controlled substances and shifted certain rule-making responsibilities (extensive testimony; committee voted the bill down).
- House Bill 1256 — Approved by committee. Description: Creates a provisional license pathway similar to social-work provisional licensing for counselor and marriage-and-family counselor graduates to practice while they sit for exams.
- House Bill 1257 — Approved by committee. Description: Broadens the neuropsychological technician pathway into a registered psych-tech classification to extend testing capacity under psychologist supervision.
- Community Health Worker certification measure (bill number in transcript not specified) — Approved by committee. Description: Establishes an optional certification pathway recognized by the Department of Health and preserves voluntary association certification.
Notes: This summary lists committee outcomes recorded in the transcript excerpt. Where the transcript omitted a roll-call tally, the item is reported with the committee outcome language used in the record (for example, "Ayes have it" or "bill failed"). For bills that were debated in detail, see the longer articles in this package for speaker lists, testimony highlights and next steps.
