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Committee advances three health-related bills to Senate floor: HB 91, HB 110, HB 198
Summary
The committee voted to advance three House bills: HB 91 (statutory clean-up removing obsolete code sections), HB 110 (limits Medicaid’s ability to veto scope-of-practice decisions), and HB 198 (moves lab rules into statute and allows market-rate lab fees). All three received due-pass recommendations and will proceed to the Senate floor.
A Senate committee on Oct. 24 sent three House bills to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations: House Bill 91, House Bill 110 and House Bill 198.
House Bill 91: The Department of Health and Welfare presented HB 91 as a statutory clean-up bill that would repeal roughly 150 obsolete sections of code that the department identified as dead or redundant. Alex Adams, director of the Department of Health and Welfare, said the sections included dormant committees and long-unused grant-authority language and that the department found no fiscal impact from the removals. "We found 150 sections that we identified as obsolete," Adams told the committee, and said the deletions carry a $0 fiscal impact because the provisions are no longer operative.
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