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Committee reports dozens of health and social-services bills to appropriations or the calendar; one education/funding bill tied 9-9 and failed
Summary
The full committee moved a large bundle of health, behavioral health and social-services bills—many by unanimous or near-unanimous voice or roll-call votes—to either the uncontested calendar or to Appropriations. One lengthy Children's Services Act package (HB 2282) failed on a 9-9 tie.
The full committee handled a heavy docket of health, behavioral health and social-services measures, advancing multiple bills in consent blocks and referring several to the Appropriations Committee. Most measures passed unanimously or by large margins; one bill, HB 2282, failed on a 9-9 tie.
Key votes and committee actions
- Behavioral health block: HB 1877, HB 1931 and HB 1937 (barrier screening for peer recovery specialists; regional older-adults facility teams; patient privacy and data-security provisions) were adopted as a block and passed the committee by a vote of 17-0.
- HB 1760 (substitute reported by Delegate Deborah/Delvia Gardner): committee voted 14-3 to report and refer the substitute to Appropriations.
- HB 2093 (adoptees seeking original birth certificates): reported by substitute, passed 18-0.
- Health professions and workforce measures: a multi-bill block (including HB 1646, HB 1861, HB 1898, HB 1904, HB 2307, HB 2040, HB 2489 and related amendments) moved in blocks across the hearing and was reported out by committee votes of 17-0 or 18-0 depending on…
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