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Votes at a glance: Senate Health and Welfare Committee actions include appointment, minutes, administrative rule and bills
Summary
A summary of formal committee actions: approval of minutes, recommendation for a gubernatorial reappointment, approval and rejection actions on an administrative docket, sending RS 32271 to print, and forwarding House Bill 29 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee completed several formal actions during the meeting, summarized here with the motions, movers and outcomes recorded on the committee transcript.
Minutes - Motion: Approve minutes of 01/30/2025. - Mover: Senator Keiser. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
Gubernatorial Reappointment - Motion: Send the gubernatorial reappointment of Brett Rabinheimer (Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired) to the Senate floor with a recommendation that the Senate confirm the appointment. - Mover: Senator Wintrow. - Second: Senator Bierke. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
Administrative Rule Docket (NSGC Code of Ethics) - Motion 1: Approve pending docket number 24-2401-2401. - Mover: Senator Bierke. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
- Motion 2: Reject the specified subsection of the National Society of Genetic Counselors Code of Ethics as incorporated by reference in IDAPA 24.24.01.002 (committee corrected the motion language during the meeting to refer to "section 2, subsection 3"). - Mover: Senator Blaylock (corrected motion language offered later in the hearing). - Second: Senator Kaiser. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote; at least one committee member recorded opposition on the record.
RS 32271 (Concurrent Resolution) - Motion: Introduce and send RS 32271 to print (resolution expressing support for receiving federal funds for adoption education and birth-mother support). - Mover: Senator Harris. - Second: Senator Shippey. - Outcome: Sent to print by voice vote; Senator Wintrow announced she would vote no and was recorded as opposed.
House Bill 29 - Motion: Send House Bill 29 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. - Mover: Senator Wintrow. - Second: Senator Blaylock. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote (no opposition noted on the record).
Notes - In several instances committee members said corrected motion language was necessary and the committee made procedural corrections on the record. - Where roll-call tallies were not provided in the verbal record, votes are recorded as voice votes with the outcomes as announced by the chair.
