House Holding On To Utah Cares Bill
Salt Lake City, UT- The back and forth over Governor Gary Herbert’s Healthy Utah Medicaid Plan continued Monday, with House leaders giving the appearance of working to avoid a Senate hearing on “Utah Cares,” their bare bones version of the bill that passed last week.
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With the legislative session set to end at midnight Thursday, Tuesday is expected to be the final day in which bills can be considered by a committee. But Senate leaders accused the House of deliberately holding onto HB446, or “Utah Cares,” so a hearing could not be scheduled.
House Majority Leader Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville, the sponsor of HB446, said the bill was still in the House because he was “still trying to reach an agreement” with the Senate on a compromise between Dunnigan’s “Utah Cares” plan and Healthy Utah, the latter of which passed the Senate but was rejected by the house.
