House Appropriations
House Appropriations referred SB26-149 to the floor, and it was the only measure to draw substantive debate in this segment — an overhaul of pathways for individuals with mental health disorders that the committee chair called a 'tour de force' of drafting.
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“I was looking at the fiscal note and noticing on, I think, page 13, mentioning a lot of contract staff and contract beds. And that goes out quite a bit into the future. And I was wondering, is there anything in the bill that might be there, or maybe I missed, that would kind of get us more on a path to have to set up something where we won't have to have that reliance on the contract beds and the contract staff?”
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Sign in to subscribeHouse Appropriations will come to order. Ms. Pope, please call the roll. Representatives. Basenecker? Here. Garcia. Sander. Present. Gilchrist. Here. Joseph. Excused, I guess. Soper. Here. Taggart. Here. Tatone. Still here. Velasco. Here. Zokai. Here. Madam vice chair. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right. Committee, we have one Bill, Senate Bill 149. Sponsors. We are the. We are not. No, we are not. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay. Do we have quite. Do we have questions for our. Yeah, I'm going to need more coffee. Do we have questions for our bill sponsors? I have a question. Okay. Representative toton. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was looking at the fiscal note and noticing on, I think, page 13, mentioning a lot of contract staff and contract beds. And that goes out quite a bit into the future. And I was wondering, is there anything in the bill that might be there, or maybe I missed, that would kind of get us more on a path to have to set up something where we won't have to have that reliance on the contract beds and the contract staff? I imagine that would cost a lot more money than…
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