Rep. Osborn says cleanup bill will remove long-term-care advisory board; committee gives do-pass 7-0

A House committee voted 7-0 to give a do-pass recommendation to "House Bill 33 29," a cleanup measure the sponsor said corrects a drafting error in an earlier sunset bill.

Representative Osborn, who the chair recognized to explain the measure, said the bill is intended to remove a long-term-care facility advisory board that had been mistakenly left in the statute. "This is actually just a cleanup bill, for the sunset bill that we ran several days ago," Osborn said, adding that "our bill accidentally put it back in." The committee first adopted the proposed committee substitute (PCS) as the working draft without objection.

The bill drew a procedural question from Representative Fugate, who asked why the correction was not left to the Senate and warned it could create a session-law conflict. "Why not just fix this when it goes to the senate?" Fugate asked. Osborn replied that the sponsors are also running separate legislation about how session laws are handled, and that, given timing uncertainty, they prefer to ensure this follow-up is signed last to avoid conflicts: staff would request that the governor sign this bill last if both measures pass.

A motion to give the bill a do-pass recommendation was made and seconded; the record did not identify who moved or seconded. On roll call the committee recorded votes of Archer, Keffner, George, West Tammy, Osborn, Pfeiffer and Fugate as "I," yielding a 7-0 tally. With that vote the chair declared the bill to have passed out of committee with a do-pass recommendation.

The committee adjourned, with the chair noting there were five minutes before the floor session began.

Notes: The bill is cited in the transcript as "House Bill 33 29." The committee record in the transcript does not provide an alternate bill numbering format; mover and seconder names were not given on the record.