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House Appropriations Committee reports three bills, including retail food allergy requirement, to floor unanimously
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted to report a package of three bills to the next stage: House Bill 77 (retail food allergy awareness), House Bill 261 (insurance-law language update), and Senate Bill 184 (licensure exemption for visiting team physicians). The package was called up and reported unanimously with no negative votes recorded.
The House Appropriations Committee reported three bills to the next stage after calling them up as a package and voting unanimously to forward them.
Committee executive director told the committee that House Bill 77 “requires the owner of a retail food facility to comply with provisions, providing for food allergy awareness.” The director said House Bill 261 “updates language in the Insurance Company Law of 1921 in reference to, quote, intellectual or physical physical disability, end quote,” and that Senate Bill 184 “amends the Medical Practice Act of 1985 to provide for licensure exemption for visiting team physicians.”
The committee’s chairman, Chairman Harris, recognized Representative Gallagher, who made a motion to call up House Bill 77, House Bill 261 and Senate Bill 184 as a package. Representative Gallagher’s motion was seconded by Representative On. The committee recorded “no negative votes” and the chair stated that all three bills “will be reported from this committee unanimously.” The transcript does not list individual roll-call votes or an exact yes count.
House Bill 77: According to the committee executive director’s overview, the bill would require owners of retail food facilities to comply with provisions aimed at food allergy awareness. The transcript provides only that summary; specific statutory text, enforcement mechanisms or penalties were not described in the meeting.
House Bill 261: The committee was told the bill updates wording in the Insurance Company Law of 1921 concerning references to intellectual or physical disability. The transcript contains the director’s quoted phrase but does not give legislative language, affected code sections, or fiscal notes.
Senate Bill 184: The director summarized this bill as an amendment to the Medical Practice Act of 1985 to provide a licensure exemption for visiting team physicians. The meeting record does not display the exemption’s scope, duration or any agency implementation details.
Because the three measures were called and voted as a package, the committee did not hold separate, detailed debate or recorded roll-call tallies for each bill in the transcript. The chair announced the package outcome and adjourned the committee. The bills will proceed per the legislature’s rules to the next step after being reported from committee.
