House Health Policy Committee reports multiple bills to the House floor, adopts H‑3 substitute to Senate Bill 95
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The Michigan House Health Policy Committee unanimously or majoritatively reported several bills to the floor and adopted an H‑3 substitute to Senate Bill 95 aligning hospital price‑list requirements with CMS. Multiple brief roll calls were taken and recorded.
The Michigan House Health Policy Committee on the record called several bills up and sent them to the full House with recommendations after roll‑call votes.
Early in the meeting the panel adopted the minutes of its Nov. 12 meeting by unanimous consent. Representatives then moved to report a set of bills to the floor. Representative Thompson moved to report “House Bill 51 62” to the House with a recommendation that it pass; the clerk called the roll and the chair announced the motion prevailed (vote reported in the record).
Representative Miermann next moved to report “house bill 52 0 1” to the floor with a recommendation to pass; the roll call in the record was 9 yay and 3 nay and the motion prevailed. Representative Preston then moved to report “house bill 52 0 2” to the floor; the committee again voted (9 yay, 3 nay reported) and the motion prevailed. Representative Saint Germain moved to report “House bill 52 0 3” to the floor with recommendation to pass; the committee roll call recorded 9 yay and 3 nay and the motion prevailed.
On a separate item, Representative Schmaltz moved to adopt the H‑3 substitute for Senate Bill 95. Committee discussion noted the substitute would make the list of prices that hospitals publish identical to current CMS requirements, require lists be easily accessible on hospital websites, and remove the tie bar to Senate Bill 94. The H‑3 substitute was adopted by roll call, and Representative Beerline subsequently moved to report Senate Bill 95 as substituted (H‑3) to the floor with a recommendation that it pass; the roll call in the record was reported in favor and the motion prevailed.
The committee read into the record written support from stakeholders on one item; Taylor Elpert of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association and Christine Shearer of MAHP were listed as not wishing to speak.
The committee later excused absent members by unanimous consent and adjourned.
Votes recorded in the committee transcript and the motions taken (as read in the committee) are reflected in the committee record; the transcript lists the motions and roll‑call responses as read aloud during the meeting.