The Health and Human Resources Subcommittee worked through 19 bills spanning nursing home transparency, foster care protections, maternal health, food security, and Medicaid reform — advancing seven bills and tabling ten others, largely on fiscal grounds, while continuing one bill to 2027.
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HB 348 was the only bill to receive a split vote — 5 to 2 — on a motion to table. Two unidentified members voted against tabling the bill. The nature of their disagreement was not recorded in the transcript.
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“The Commonwealth of Virginia, we are currently taking three, over $3 million from children that belongs to them and was children in foster care. The state actually applies for benefits on behalf of children and then uses that for their own care and then sends them off after the age of 18 out into the world without funding for housing for schools or anything like this.”
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Sign in to subscribeWas this round three for House Appropriations? This is the Health and Human Resources subcommittee and we will take the roll. Okay. And we've got a corn. We're going to go right into our bill list here. And we have delegate Navarre with 1116 on page eight. We'll go right to that. Come on up. Okay. I should have. First of all, thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the subcommittee. I should have an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Move the subject some more. Move the substitute. We have motion to move the substitute has been properly seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. That's before us. Okay. I now ask that you adopt a line amendment to strike line 19 in its entirety. Move the line amendment. Second, we have a motion that's been properly seconded to move the line amendment. All in favor say aye. Okay. Okay. So speaking to the bill as substituted an amendment for context. Last fall, former governor Youngkin issued an executive order aimed to ensure nursing homes meet the highest standards for safety, quality and transparency. One of the directives was by mid November, VDH had to…
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