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Senate Health committee advances 11 House bills to Rules Committee, adopts several amendments
Summary
In its final regular session meeting, the Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee moved 11 House bills to the Rules Committee, adopting or folding in several striking and page amendments (including changes affecting ambulance staffing, billing, veterinary practice and continuing-care contracts). All actions were voice votes and reported "subject to signatures."
The Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee met in executive session and gave due-pass recommendations to the Rules Committee on 11 House bills, adopting several amendments that alter substantive language in bills covering ambulance personnel and billing, veterinary prescribing, continuing-care contracts and other health‑related topics.
Research analyst Jacob Ewing summarized the bills for the committee, identifying sponsors and any amendments on the record. On House Bill 2,110 — governing personnel for ambulance service inter-facility specialty-care transports — staff noted a page‑in amendment, S-5402.1, from Senator Cleveland that changes a "should" to a "shall," “creat[ing] a requirement versus a suggestion that hospitals coordinate with ambulance service providers to ensure that nurses are familiar with equipment and medical supplies in the ambulance before participating in inter…
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