Senate Health and Welfare committee sends several RSs to print, including psychology supervision changes and a tire‑cleanup pilot

The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send several request statutes (RSs) to print after brief sponsor presentations and limited questions from committee members.

Committee action matters because each RS is the first formal step that allows a bill to be drafted for later committee hearings and potential floor action; the measures the committee moved forward affect professional licensing, environmental cleanup, child custody timelines, long‑term care regulations and access to medical records for Social Security applicants.

Senators approved the following introductions and procedural motions:

- RS32220 (Sen. Mark Harris): The RS would change how prescribing psychologists are supervised, moving from a supervision model requiring a supervisor or supervision agreement with an Idaho or adjoining‑state physician to a collaborative agreement model, and would eliminate the permanent advisory panel tied to the Psychologist Act. Senator Mark Harris said the bill “basically improves and streamlines practice of psychology in…