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Committee advances bill to move state laboratory rules into statute and allow market-rate lab fees
3112720 · February 26, 2025
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Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 198 to the floor. The bill transfers several laboratory-related administrative rules into statute and authorizes the state lab to set testing fees at market rates where appropriate.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved sending House Bill 198 to the floor after the sponsor described the bill as a rules-to-statute move that largely preserves existing requirements while moving them from administrative rule into statute.
Sen. Carl Bjerke, sponsor of the bill, told the committee the legislation transfers…
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