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Senate committee sends House Bill 202 to floor; bill strips outdated departmental references and shifts some pool regulation to local health boards
Summary
House Bill 202 passed from committee after testimony that it removes obsolete statutory references to functions moved from the Department of Health and Welfare to other agencies, and reduces state oversight of public pools so local health districts can adopt regulations without DHW rulemaking.
A Senate committee voted to advance House Bill 202 to the floor after department staff said the measure corrects outdated statutory references and returns certain regulatory authority to local entities.
Jared Larson, legislative and regulatory affairs chief at the Department of Health and Welfare, told the committee the bill updates language in state code to reflect agencies that were created after earlier statutes were enacted. "Two departments of state government were spun off from the Department of Health and Welfare years ago," Larson said,…
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