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Minnesota House passes HF 2464, adopting optometry scope changes and other health provisions
Summary
The Minnesota House passed House File 2464 as amended, adopting two floor amendments including A13 (expanding optometry scope of practice) and A6 (a technical update), and approved the bill on third reading by unanimous recorded votes, according to the House floor transcript.
The Minnesota House passed House File 2464, an act relating to state government that modifies several health and licensing provisions, approving the bill on third reading as amended by unanimous recorded votes on the House floor, according to the House transcript.
Representative Backer, the bill’s author, told members the measure is bipartisan and highlighted several provisions, saying, “Some of the high points of the bill is the sensitive exams... we have the maternal death studies... we also have a provision in this bill that, makes it so it directs, data about trafficking to us as legislators... safe place, which allows mothers to, drop off unwanted live babies without criminal penalizing.”
The bill includes multiple health-related provisions: expanded authority for optometry scope of practice enacted through Amendment A13, funding and study language for maternal death reviews with attention to minority mothers, a data-sharing provision about…
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