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Health and Welfare committee advances three bills: obsolete-code clean-up, Medicaid scope-of-practice limit, laboratory statutes
Summary
The committee voted to send House Bill 91 (cleanup of obsolete Health & Welfare code), House Bill 110 (limits Medicaid rulemaking on provider scope of practice), and House Bill 198 (move several lab rules into statute) to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations; all were reported out of committee today.
The Health and Welfare Committee voted to send three bills to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations: House Bill 91, House Bill 110 and House Bill 198.
House Bill 91: Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the committee HB 91 identifies roughly 150 obsolete or inoperative statutory sections and removes them from Title 39 and related code. Adams said the items include defunct advisory committees, unfunded grant programs and archaic requirements such as printed newspaper notices for adulterated products. He described the bill as a statutory "decluttering" exercise with no fiscal impact and said agencies posted the changes for public and lobbyist review before the House action. Senator Harris moved and Senator Keiser seconded the motion to send HB 91 to the floor…
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