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February 16, 2024
On Thursday, the House Health & Human Services Committee unanimously passed HB 1549 (Grant), a comprehensive health care reform known as “Live Healthy.” This bill seeks to expand access to health care by recruiting and retaining a highly skilled workforce, increasing the use of preventive services and primary care, and incentivizing more providers to serve the poor. The Committee adopted two amendments to bring HB 1549 into closer alignment with SB 7016, its Senate companion. The FCCB expressed its support for 'Live Healthy' during the Committee’s discussion of the bill.
Since this was the final House committee to hear HB 1549, the legislation is now ready for consideration by the full House. The Senate passed SB 7016 on January 18. Both chambers must ultimately negotiate and resolve the remaining differences between the two bills prior to the end of the legislative session on March 8.