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House extends most sunsets but rejects nearer deadline on nursing-home provision
Summary
In a bundled sunset-reauthorization bill, the House voted to continue many program authorizations but rejected an amendment that would have restored an earlier sunset date for a nursing-home related provision; HB79 passed 53–17 after heated debate over rightsizing long-term care.
Representative David Clark presented House Bill 79, a package of sunset reauthorizations covering multiple programs and entities. He called attention to a provision tied to the Navajo Trust Fund that the bill would allow to sunset, and described the general approach as reauthorizations ranging from a few years to 10 years.
A substantive floor fight centered on a motion to delete lines that would…
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