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Medical subcommittee updates Long Term Care Council membership, fixes agency titles
Summary
The House medical subcommittee favorably recommended House Bill 3022 with amendments that correct agency titles, add the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs as a voting member of the Long Term Care Council, and permit designees to attend council meetings; the measure was sent to the full committee unanimously.
Representative Heath Sessions, chair of the House medical subcommittee, said the panel on an unspecified date favorably recommended House Bill 3022, a cleanup measure that updates agency names and membership on the Long Term Care Council and directs the council to maintain a statewide access system for long-term supports and services.
The bill, sponsored in the subcommittee by Representative Mark Smith, would replace an obsolete reference to the lieutenant governor’s office on aging with the Department of Aging and would add the…
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