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Committee passes medical board cleanup bill
Summary
SB275, described by its sponsor as simple cleanup language requested by the medical board to remove a conflicting sentence from statute, passed the committee by voice vote with no questions.
Little Rock — The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee passed SB275 on a voice vote after a brief presentation by sponsor Senator Bledsoe.
Senator Bledsoe said the medical board discovered a sentence on page 2, lines 2–3 that conflicted with another state statute and the bill deletes that sentence to resolve the conflict. “The medical board found that on page 2, line 2 lines 2 and 3 that there was that that sentence was a conflict with another statute, so they have deleted it,” Bledsoe said.
There were no questions from the committee. The sponsor closed and members voted to pass the bill by voice vote; the chair announced approval.
What’s next: SB275 was approved by the committee; the sponsor indicated it is a cleanup item requested by the medical board.
