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House committee votes to send repeal of ‘Yellow Dot’ program to the floor
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The House Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 80 — a repeal of the state’s Yellow Dot program chapter — to the full House with a do-pass recommendation after members and the bill sponsor described the program as unused and unfunded.
BOISE — The House Health and Welfare Committee voted unanimously to send House Bill 80 to the full House with a do-pass recommendation, moving to repeal the statutory chapter that established Idaho’s Yellow Dot program.
Representative Heather Scott (R., Dist. 2), who sponsored the bill, told the committee the program was intended to distribute kits that collect medical information to help first responders but “never really got funded” and lacked tracking. “I would…
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