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Senate panel backs short-term tools, work group to regulate recovery homes
Summary
The subcommittee voted unanimously to report SB 8 38, which would make operating an uncertified recovery home a misdemeanor and creates a stakeholder work group to recommend longer-term regulation.
Senator Van Valkenburgh presented Senate Bill 8 38 to the Health subcommittee, saying the measure aims to give local governments limited authority to address ‘‘bad actors’’ among recovery homes and to convene a stakeholder work group to recommend longer-term regulation.
The bill would make operating a recovery home without certification a misdemeanor and establish a work group—included in the Senate budget language—to meet over the following months to propose a regulatory pathway. Van Valkenburgh described the approach as a two-step process: a one-year…
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