Compensation and Retirement Subcommittee

Friday, February 13, 2026·13m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Appropriations Compensation and Retirement Subcommittee advanced six bills — including measures on firefighter cancer screenings, pharmacy benefit manager reform, and contraceptive drug coverage — while carrying over two bills with indeterminate or large fiscal impacts to the 2027 session. HB 1182 on contraceptive coverage was the only bill to draw a dissenting vote, passing 6 to 1.

Key Actions

·HB 393 – Firefighters Cancer Screening Grant Program and FundNo Vote

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Notable Quotes

“The language in the bill caps the screen at the cost of the screen at $350 per firefighter. Anything above that would be paid for by the locality. There's a sunset that states that if the fund balance gets down to zero and that no funding is provided in the next appropriation act that the fund would no longer exist.”
Michael J. [last name UNCLEAR] — analyst — The analyst was describing the cost structure and sunset provision of HB 393, which establishes a cancer screening fund for firefighters.

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Votes

Adopt HACC substitute for HB 393Passed

Move and report as substituted HB 393Passed

Carry over HB 406 to 2027 sessionPassed

Move to report HB 490Passed

Move to report HB 736Passed

Adopt HAC substitute for HB 830Passed

Move to report House Bill 830 as substitutedPassed

Move to report HB 1182Passed

Adopt HAC substitute for HB 1313Passed

Move to report House Bill 1313 as substitutedPassed

Move that we carry this bill over to the 2027 session (HB 1390)Passed

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TranscriptPreview

This meeting, Appropriations Compensation and retirement subcommittee will come to order. Madam Clerk, you please open the roll to take attendance. Madam Clerk, can you please close the roll? We do have a quorum. All right. We have a few bills in front of us today. But what we are going to do is have Michael J. The analyst read the bills and the descriptions of the bills in the summary. We will not take any testimony on the bills. A lot of these things have been discussed in committee before coming up here. So we will begin with House Bill 393 by Delegate Askew. House Bill 393 has a HACC substitute. Move the substitute second and I'm going to take this one for the. For the chairs of the chair bill. So all in favor of the substitute say aye. Any opposed? The substitute is before us. The substitute establishes a special non reverting fund known as the first responders Cancer Screening fund. It would be placed under the Department of Fire programs. The fund would provide funding for localities to give their firefighters cancer screens. The language in the bill caps the screen at the cost of the…

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