Senate Health and Welfare Committee advances two reappointments, moves two draft statutes to print

The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee on an unspecified January day advanced two gubernatorial reappointments to the Senate floor with recommendations for confirmation, approved two legislative services requests for print, and heard testimony from a reappointment candidate for the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

The committee voted to send the reappointment of Alan Schneider to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired to the full Senate with a recommendation that he be confirmed. It also ultimately sent the reappointment of Dr. Timothy Rerick to the State Board of Health and Welfare to the floor with a recommendation that the Senate confirm him; the initial motion to send Dr. Rerick lacked a second and was later seconded and carried. The committee heard but did not vote on the reappointment of Mark Watkins to the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Watkins gave remarks and answered questions and the committee said it will vote on that nomination at its next meeting.

The panel voted to print RS 32-137, a legislative services request from Sen. Brandon Shippy that would move a long-standing provision of IDAPA 16.03.03 (child support services), specifically section 302, from administrative rule into statute. Sen. Shippy told the committee the proposal “moves section 302 from IDAPA 16-03-03, child support services, from administrative rule into statute.” He said the…