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Director seeks major rule rollback; committee approves hospital licensing repeal and EMS consolidation
Summary
The committee heard Department Director Alex Adams' plan to pare back hundreds of pages of administrative rules and approved a repeal of Idaho hospital-licensing rules (to defer to CMS licensure) and a consolidated emergency medical services chapter that reduces continuing-education hours to comply with recent state law.
The House Health and Welfare Committee advanced a set of regulatory changes after Department of Health and Welfare Director Alex Adams outlined a broad plan to reduce the department's administrative-rule burden.
Adams told the committee the department employs roughly 3,000 people across 37 locations and oversees some programs lawmakers might not expect. "Quality over quantity," Adams said, describing an effort to reduce the department's rule volume and shift certain decisions back to statute and elected lawmakers. He said the department plans bills this session to cut many statutory "shells" and approximately 200 pages of administrative rule text.
Hospital licensing: The committee approved docket 160314-2401, which repeals the state's hospital-licensing chapter and, per the department, will be replaced by a Senate bill that deems…
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