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House Health & Human Services

Wednesday, April 15, 2026·1h 52m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Health & Human Services Committee advanced a bereaved family's push to add mental health awareness to youth concussion training and cleared a wide-ranging foster-care benefits bill unanimously, while a kinship-care measure moved forward only after four Republicans balked at last-minute amendments.

Key Actions

·Family Stability & Kinship CarePassed

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Notable Quotes

No law can bring Alyssa back, but this bill has the power to help other families recognize the signs earlier, start important conversations and support young athletes before it's too late.

Stella DeLongchamp · witnessThe mother of Alyssa DeLongchamp, testifying for the bill inspired by her daughter's suicide at 13, capturing the family's motive for the legislation.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (9)Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
No (4)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Ron Weinberg, Dan Woog
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (13)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Ron Weinberg, Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Dan Woog, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist, Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart
No (2)Ron Weinberg, Brandi Bradley
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TranscriptPreview
The Health and Human Services Committee will come to order. Mr. Shidoun, could you please call the roll? Representative Zabaron. Excused. Bradfield. Good. I got extra. Yeah. Bradley, Double the copies. Representative Bradley English. Excuse. Emmerich. Here. McCormick. Here. Right in. Beautiful. Wonderful. Excused. Stuart. Here. Weinberg. Here. WUK Excused. Leader. Excuse. Madam Chair. Here. Okay. Welcome everyone to the Health and Human Services Committee. We are hearing three bills today. Senate Bill 60, House Bill 1347, and then House Bill 1314 for action only. We are going to have two minutes for witnesses, witness testimony, and we will have 10 minute panels. We'll have everyone ask their first question and if we have time, they will go around and have second questions answered. We are going to try really hard to be efficient because we know folks have been waiting most of the day to test five here. So we want to make sure we can get to everyone and be efficient with our time. So thank you so much for being here. And with that, I'll turn it over to the sponsors. Representative Hamrick. Thank you, Madam Chair. Members of the committee, I'm here today to present Senate
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