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Committee Hears Proposal Letting DHHS Set Water-testing Fees by Rule
Summary
Sen. James Gray introduced a department‑requested bill, SB 178, asking lawmakers to let the Department of Health and Human Services set water‑testing laboratory fees by administrative rule rather than by statute.
Sen. James Gray, R-6, opened a hearing Feb. 26 on Senate Bill 178, a department-request measure to allow the Department of Health and Human Services to set laboratory service fees for certain water testing by administrative rule rather than by statute.
The bill’s sponsors and agency witnesses said the change would put water‑testing fees in the same regulatory framework as the rest of the state public‑health laboratory program and make fee-setting more flexible.
“This legislation is department‑requested,…
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