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Committee advances public-health disclosure and patient-debt bills, defeats medical-respite proposal
Summary
In executive session the House Health and Human Services Committee amended and passed HB253 and HB273 to move to the floor; HB274 failed and was tabled after debate on capacity and cost assumptions.
The House Health and Human Services Committee moved three bills through executive action after closing its hearings.
House Bill 253 (Representative Bill Mercer sponsor) — an act requiring the Department of Public Health and Human Services to disclose certain information during a public health emergency — was amended (Amendment 253.1.2) and passed out of committee. The committee recorded a final roll-call tally of 15 for and 6 against after proxies were noted; committee staff later…
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