InterHab Insider: Legislative Alert - House Committees to Consider SB 210 on Monday, March 28

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Legislative Alert - House Committees to Consider SB 210 on Monday, March 28

There will be a special joint-committee hearing on Monday, March 28 at 8:30 AM in order to consider, and possibly take action on, Senate Bill 210.

SB 210 was double referred in the House, to the Aging/Long Term Care and Social Service Budget committees. Further, the committees will meet in joint session to consider the bill on Monday, March 28. This is a highly unusual procedure.

The joint committee will meet Monday morning at 8:30 to be briefed on the bill, receive brief testimony, and then vote on the bill, hopefully to send it to the floor for passage.

Rep. Bob Bethell (Aging/Long Term Care) will chair the committee, and Rep. David Crum (Social Services chair) will vice chair the committee.

If you have a House member on either of these two committees, you must finalize your advocacy with them tomorrow and Friday, or over the weekend if you need to.

Monday morning will be too late to inform committee members. If SB 210 doesn't earn the support of this joint committee, we will be set far back in our efforts to seek passage of this vitally important bill. For those without representatives on these committees, continue to inform and educate your representatives on SB 210, as a vote on the bill by the full House would be the next step following SB 210 moving out of this joint committee.

Listed below are the members of both two committees. Please take a minute to remind them that despite not spending one additional state general fund dollar, SB 210 could become the best effort of the Legislature in 15 years on behalf of building service capacity in the Kansas DD service system.

Aging and Long Term Care Committee: