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Committee inserts four House Medicaid bills into SB126, adds mid-level providers to newborn screening rules
Summary
The House Health and Human Services Committee voted to insert the contents of four House bills worked previously into Senate Bill 126, adopted an amendment to explicitly include mid-level providers in newborn screening provisions, and passed the house substitute out of committee.
The Committee on House Health and Human Services voted to replace the contents of Senate Bill 126 with four House bills the committee worked on previously and approved a targeted amendment that expands who may perform newborn screening tasks.
Committee staff Carly summarized the procedural change: the committee removed the original contents of Senate Bill 126 and "insert[ed] the contents of House Bill 2386, House Bill 20250, House Bill 203907 and House Bill 2399 that we worked yesterday," according to the transcript notation (numbers read in committee as "23 86," "20 2 50," "20 3 90 7," and "23 99"). The chair then moved to work the bills and later to approve the house substitute for Senate Bill 126 as amended.
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