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Committee advances three bills clearing obsolete code, clarifying Medicaid scope and moving lab rules into statute
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send three bills to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations: House Bill 91 (agency code clean-up), House Bill 110 (limits Medicaid from overriding legislative scope-of-practice decisions), and House Bill 198 (moves several IDAPA lab rules into statute and updates state lab fee authority).
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee advanced three unrelated measures to the Senate floor on Tuesday: House Bill 91, a statutory clean-up removing numerous obsolete sections of department code; House Bill 110, a scope-of-practice clarification that limits Medicaid's ability to block legislative or licensing-board changes through policy inaction; and House Bill 198, which moves several laboratory-related administrative rules into statute and authorizes market-based fee adjustments for the state laboratory.
House Bill 91 Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, told the committee the bill identifies and repeals roughly 150 obsolete code sections that are no longer operative. "We found 150 sections that…
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