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Committee advances bill moving several lab rules into statute, permits state lab to adjust testing fees
Summary
House Bill 198 moves multiple IDAPA laboratory rules into statute and includes a provision authorizing the state laboratory to set testing fees at market rates so as not to disadvantage private providers; the committee sent the bill to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
Sen. Carl Bjerke, sponsor of House Bill 198, told the committee the bill relocates several administrative rules that govern laboratory quality assurance, drinking-water laboratory certification, clandestine drug laboratory cleanup and state laboratory fees into statute. "This bill moves IDAPA 16.02.06, 16.02.13, 16.02.24 and 16.02.25 from administrative rule into statute," Bjerke said.
Bjerke said…
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