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House Health & Human Services

Tuesday, March 10, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Health & Human Services Committee killed a Republican-sponsored measure requiring providers to raise adoption with pregnant patients on a party-line vote, while advancing bills on compounded medicines, nursing-home penalty funds and a measure recognizing pets as a social determinant of health.

Key Actions

·Discuss Adoption Information with Pregnant PersonsKilled

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Notable Quotes

People know their own lives. They know their own bodies. They are not wandering into an abortion appointment by accident.

Kathy Garcia, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (against) · witnessCrystallized the opposition's core argument that the mandate second-guessed patients' informed decisions and conflicted with voter-approved abortion protections.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (8)Regina English, Lisa Feret, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Eliza Hamrick
No (5)Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Lori Garcia Sander, Dusty Johnson, Dan Woog
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (9)Mary Bradfield, Lisa Feret, Lori Garcia Sander, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Lindsay Gilchrist, Sheila Lieder
No (2)Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson
Excused (2)Regina English, Dan Woog
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (13)Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Lori Garcia Sander, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Lori Garcia Sander, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
No (2)Mary Bradfield, Dusty Johnson
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TranscriptPreview
Committee will come to order. Mr. Shadum, please call the roll. Representatives Bradfield. Here. Bradley. Here. English. Excuse me. Frey. Here. Garcia. Sander. Present. Hamrick. Here. Johnson. Representative Johnson. Here. Gormick. Excuse. Right in here. Stewart. Here. Woogie. Here. Leader. Present. Madam Chair. Here. Okay, thanks for joining us, Representative Taggart, and welcome back. If you both would like to explain the bill that we're. Oh, before we do that, let me just tell again the bills that we're going to be hearing today. The health and human services committee will hear 1229-1241-1249-1244, 1262 and 1105. And we'll have three minute testimony and 10 minute panels. And with that, we'll turn it over to you sponsors. Tell us about your bill, Representative Tiger. Thank you, Madam Chair. It's an honor to be back in front of you folks. I'm looking to the right here to see if I have any other support, but. And this is the first time I've had a chance to co prime a bill with Representative Ferre and I'm really pleased that she would join on this bill. Before I take you through the bill, I want to set the stage of how important this human
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