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Senate Finance Committee hears sponsor testimony on substitute House Bill 7 targeting early-childhood services
Summary
Sponsors told the Senate Finance Committee the substitute for House Bill 7 focuses on early-childhood mental health, WIC modernization, coordinated services and targeted home visiting; the committee adopted amendment 0633-12 to make the substitute the working document.
Representative Andrew White presented sponsor testimony on substitute House Bill 7, telling the Senate Finance Committee the bill refocuses efforts on children's first 1,000 days and includes measures to align early-childhood mental-health diagnostic codes, require evaluation and reporting, modernize WIC enrollment, improve interagency coordination and target home visiting to highest-risk families.
The sponsor said the original funding request could not be carried forward this session, noting, "We can't keep the $334,000,000 that we wanted to spend right now because it's coming to you…
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