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Committee executive action: bills moved to the House floor, including mental-health screening amendment and vehicle-abandonment measure
Summary
The House Business and Labor Committee completed executive action on several Senate bills, voting to move them to the House floor, including SB 244 (health-insurance behavioral-health screening, as amended), SB 373 (abandoned vehicles), and SB 495 (eliminating the Tobacco Prevention Advisory Board).
The House Business and Labor Committee conducted executive action and moved multiple Senate bills to the House floor.
Senate Bill 244 (Representative Yakawich carried in committee) — The committee adopted amendment 244.2.1 to clarify that behavioral health screening and assessments are optional, require insureds be informed they may opt out, and make the screening available at no out-of-pocket cost when requested by the insured. Vice Chair Seacenscrow moved the amendment; debate clarified the amendment’s intent to place the onus on providers to inform insureds that behavioral screening is optional and to require insured request for the screening in some parts of the text. The motion to concur on SB 244 as amended passed on a roll-call vote. The clerk recorded the committee vote as 14 in favor and 6 against. Representative Oblander was identified as the House carrier for the bill.
Senate Bill 373 (abandoned vehicles) — Committee discussion noted the bill would help mechanics and small shops manage abandoned vehicles on their property. The committee voted to move SB 373 to the floor; the committee identified Representative Teal as the House carrier.
Senate Bill 495 (eliminate Tobacco Prevention Advisory Board) — As described in the earlier hearing, committee members voted by voice and recorded proxy votes; the committee announced SB 495 would move to the House floor and Representative Sprunger agreed to be the House carrier.
Procedure notes: The committee also took other motions in executive action (including a concurrence motion for SB 244 and amendment votes). The committee recorded proxy votes for members absent during some voice votes and announced outcomes in committee.
