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House Insurance Committee adopts rules, schedules life and health subcommittee meeting
Summary
The House Insurance Committee adopted its committee rules, introduced new members and staff, and scheduled a life and health subcommittee meeting where two bills were referred for initial consideration.
The House Insurance Committee on opening day adopted its committee rules, confirmed subcommittee assignments and heard introductions of new members and staff before briefly convening a life and health subcommittee meeting to begin consideration of two bills.
The committee’s chairman opened the session and noted this was the panel’s first meeting of the year. A member moved to adopt the committee rules; the motion was seconded and approved by voice/hand vote.
Representative Omari Crawford, introduced herself as a new member from the 80th House District, which she said is primarily in DeKalb County and partially in the city of Atlanta. Representative Matt Reeves of Gwinnett County also introduced himself. Patrick Mok, the committee’s analyst from the House Budget and Research Office, said, “I’ll be the analyst for this committee this biennium.” The chairman noted the presence of other new members and said subcommittee lists would be corrected and reissued where necessary.
Committee staff distributed a three-column membership sheet listing the property-casualty, life-and-health, and administrative subcommittees. Several members flagged placement errors; Representative Hughley said she did not see her name on any list, and the chairman acknowledged that would be corrected. The chairman said that, as a general rule, bills are first sent to a subcommittee before consideration by the full committee but that some bills may be brought directly to the full committee in certain situations.
After approving the rules, the chairman dismissed the full committee and convened the life and health subcommittee, which the chairman said had sufficient members present to begin. The chairman and staff told members that two bills had been assigned to the life and health subcommittee: one described as a department bill and another sponsored by Representative Scott; the committee did not discuss either bill’s substance or introduce bill numbers during this meeting.
The meeting closed with staff promising to correct the subcommittee membership list and to circulate that updated list to members before the next convening. No policy debate or formal votes on the referred bills occurred during the session.
