| Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety Committee
Members (11)
Committee Bills (150)
🗓 Awaiting hearing (1)
Unscheduled
| 📋 HB 723: Establish annual reporting requirements of infants born alive | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
⌛️ Heard, awaiting vote (17)
| 📋 SR 10: Confirm governor's appointees for board of alternative health care | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 11: Confirm governor appointee for board of athletic trainers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 12: Confirm governor's appointees for board of dentistry | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 20: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of nursing | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 22: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of medical examiners | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
🚫 Withdrawn (0)
🚫 Voted down (47)
| 📋 SJ 50: Interim study of the medical response to COVID-19 | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House |
| 📋 HJ 66: Study resolution on impact of federal funding changes on DPHHS | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
| 📋 SR 68: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of massage therapy | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 SB 72: Provide presumptive eligibility for Medicaid coverage of home and community-based services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 76: Generally revise laws related to the board of behavioral health | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
✅ Voted forward (96)
| 📋 SJ 13: Study resolution for emergency medical services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SB 17: Revise laws related to hearings after the emergency removal and protective placement of a child | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 18: Revise the definition of child abuse or neglect | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HJ 26: Study guardianships and conservatorships | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 SJ 29: Interim study resolution on coordinating efforts between OPI and DPHHS in addressing the impacts on children of prenatal exposure to meth and fentanyl | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
🧨 Blasted from committee
| 📋 SB 147: Generally revise Montana Indian child welfare laws | ❌1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 180: Generally revise laws related to the determination of the best interests of the child in custody and adoption proceedings | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
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