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Senate Health & Human Services

Wednesday, March 18, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The Senate Health & Human Services Committee, meeting upon adjournment, unanimously forwarded six State Board of Health nominees to the full Senate on the consent calendar, and welcomed Sen. Iman Jodeh as its new vice chair on a now 5-2 panel.

Key Actions

·State Board of Health confirmationsAction

Notable Quotes

I have been a PA for 25 years, working most of those years in rural Colorado, serving in federally qualified health care centers and rural health clinics and advocating for people individually is a really special opportunity. But I find as the director of public health, I get to take care of the community as a whole.

Megan Hillman (nominee, CD4) · witnessHillman framed her rural clinical background as the throughline to a community-wide public-health role, illustrating the practitioner perspective on the board.

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Yep. Senate Health and Human Services will come to order. Mr. Brown, please call the roll. Senators Bright. Here. Cutter. Excused. Doherty. Sorry, the audio just came on here. Brazil. Excused. Weissman. Good morning, Judah. Mr. Chair. Malika here. Members, we did make the announcement. We are down to a 5, 2 committee. We do have a new vice chair. Welcome, Senator Judah. Madam Vice Chair, as our new vice chair today, Members, we do have just confirmation hearings for the State Board of Health. Do we have who's remote? Deborah Fitch, if you want to come up. Wouldn't I call your name? It does, but it doesn't matter. Eric Stianci. Online, we have Laura Schunk. We're going to call everyone up, so you might have to pull up some chairs. Megan Hillman, Stan vanderwerff, Christina Hsu. And we have Alex Leach here, the Board of Health administrator, to introduce them. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. As noted, my name is Alex Leach and I am the administrator for the State Board of Health. And today I have the privilege of introducing the members we are presenting for confirmation. First, we do have two members up for reconfirmation. So at
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