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Appropriations committee advances package of bills on child safety, worker protections and retirement COLAs
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee advanced multiple bills including requirements for carbon monoxide alarms in childcare (HB156), a public employees occupational safety and health act (HB308), scaled COLAs for certain retirees (HB411), and measures on youth driver's licenses and drug-and-alcohol reporting; all items were called up and advanced to the floor or passed by the committee.
At a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, members advanced several bills to the full House, with motions and roll calls recorded for each item.
The committee’s executive director summarized the package at the start, saying, “House bill 156 amends the human service code to require childcare centers or family childcare homes to install carbon monoxide alarms,” and that “House bill 308 establishes the public employees occupational safety and health act,” and giving brief descriptions of HB 411, HB 472, HB 640, HB 764 and HB 819. The committee then took votes on each item.
Representative Waxman moved to call up House Bill 156, House Bill 472 and House Bill 640 as a package; Representative Abney seconded. The chair…
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