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Committee advances bill to remove 150 obsolete Health & Welfare code sections
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 91 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation after hearing from Department of Health and Welfare Director Alex Adams that the bill deletes roughly 150 obsolete statutory sections and carries no fiscal impact.
Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the committee that House Bill 91 would remove about 150 obsolete or inoperative sections of code across the department’s statutes. "We have 897 pages of law," Adams said. "We found 150 sections that we identified as obsolete, and that's what's represented in this bill." (00:40:57.260)
Adams told senators the items include committees that "haven't met since the Samuelson administration" and grants unused since the Clinton…
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