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Senate Health & Welfare advances H 938, delays 70-day hotel limit for some households in FY27
Summary
The Senate Health & Welfare committee voted May 12 to advance H 938 with pending edits after staff added a fiscal-year-2027 paragraph that exempts households already in General Assistance hotel or motel placements from the bill's 70-day emergency-housing limit until their 12-month application anniversary.
The Senate Health & Welfare committee on May 12 voted to advance H 938 with pending technical edits and added a fiscal-year-2027 provision delaying application of the bill's 70-day emergency-housing cap for certain households already using General Assistance (GA) hotel or motel placements.
Katie, a committee staff member who presented draft 6.1, said the new paragraph "says that in fiscal year 27, eligible households utilizing GA emergency housing in a hotel or motel during the previous fiscal year shall not be subject to the 70-day limit established in this bill until the eligible household's 12-month anniversary of their fiscal 2026 application." She clarified with an example that a household that used 35 days in April and May would have those 35 days count toward the 70-day cap until the household's personal anniversary month in the following year, rather than all households' clocks resetting on the program transition date.
The Chair asked whether members had questions and the committee moved to a vote "pending edits," using the transcript phrase. The Chair called members for their responses; the transcript records Senator Benson, Senator Cummings, Senator Eulich and Senator Lyons saying "Yes," and Senator Morley saying "No." The named responses in the transcript account for four yes votes and one no vote. The transcript also contains an ambiguous numeric tally, "5 0 1," which the committee did not further clarify on the record during the excerpts provided.
The Chair said the committee will prepare a fiscal note and report the bill to the calendar; the committee may pass over the bill today. The Chair also noted that the House had previously transmitted incorrect language to the committee and that the committee would reconsider the earlier vote to correct a technical error involving a small number of appointments to the child abuse and neglect working group.
The committee's action advances H 938 to the next stage with final technical edits and a fiscal note to follow. No committee-recorded amendments or named movers/seconders were provided in the transcript excerpts.
