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House introduces bills on involuntary hospitalization reporting and workforce housing tax incentives
Summary
During the session the House read two bills to the floor: House File 207 on involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements and House File 208 on allocation of workforce housing tax incentives; both were referred to committees.
Representative Kresick introduced House File 207, "a bill for an act relating to certain involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements," which the presiding officer referred to the Community Health and Human Services Committee. Representative Bossman introduced House File 208, described on the floor as "a bill for an act relating to the allocation of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income tax, franchise tax, and the insurance premium tax," and the chair referred it to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Why it matters: Both measures set a legislative path for committee review. Reporting requirements for involuntary hospitalization could affect state data collection and oversight of behavioral-health interventions; the workforce housing bill, as read on the floor, proposes rules for which tax liabilities housing incentives may offset.
Details from the floor: House File 207 was announced by the presiding officer as "House file 207 by Kresick and others a bill for an act relating to certain involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements." The chair stated that bill was "not ready for commitment" and referred it to Community Health and Human Services. The reading of House File 208 on the floor identified Representative Bossman as the sponsor and described the bill's subject as allocation of workforce housing tax incentives across individual and corporate income tax, franchise tax, and insurance premium tax; the chair referred that bill to Ways and Means and noted it was "not ready for commitment." No committee actions, amendments, hearings, or votes on either bill were recorded on the floor during this session.
What was not specified on the floor: The bill texts, fiscal notes, effective dates, specific allocation mechanisms for the housing incentives, and detailed reporting provisions for HF207 were not read on the floor and were not provided in the session transcript. Committee schedules and staff analyses were not announced.
Next steps: Both bills will proceed to the named committees for consideration; any hearings, amendments, or votes will be recorded in subsequent committee proceedings and future floor sessions.
