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Health and Welfare director backs RS 31827 to repeal obsolete statutes
Summary
Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, asked the committee to introduce RS 31827, a bill that would repeal roughly 150 obsolete statutory sections the department says are no longer operational; the committee introduced the RS by voice vote.
Alex Adams, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, asked the House Health and Welfare Committee to introduce RS 31827, a broad cleanup that he said would repeal about 150 obsolete or nonoperational statutory sections.
"What this bill does is it hacks through 150 sections of what I would call zombie programs, programs that grants that haven't been funded since the cold war," Adams told the committee. He described the measure as a cross-reference cleanup and said the fiscal impact is $0 because the programs targeted by the repeal are not operational.
Representative McCain moved to introduce RS 31827. The motion carried by voice vote. Committee members asked only a clarifying question from Representative Kaler about whether “no longer operational” meant the programs had not been funded; Adams and others confirmed that the sections refer to programs that have effectively ceased because they have not been funded.
Adams asked the committee to send RS 31827 to print. The committee introduced the RS and moved on to the next agenda item; no public testimony was recorded on RS 31827 during the meeting.
