2025 bills / S.B. 172
S.B. 172 Local Health Department Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires the Department of Environmental Quality and each local health department to enter into a cooperative agreement for providing environmental health services. It also sets up a governance committee of state and local health staff to review department funding and whether contract-funded work meets state performance standards, and requires the state to repay local health departments for costs of collecting environmental civil penalties.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the Department of Environmental Quality (department) and each local health department to enter into a cooperative agreement for providing environmental health services
- requires that the governance committee comprised of department and local health department personnel:
- review all department funding
- review whether funds allocated by contract or cooperative agreement are subject to requirements meeting or exceeding the minimum performance standards created by the department
- create a process for exempting certain applications for federal funding from committee review
- requires the department to reimburse a local health department for all costs associated with collecting a civil penalty under Title 19, Environmental Quality Code
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 172 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 172 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 0 no, 14 absentFinal House vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how