2017 House Bill 4238

Appropriations: Department of Health and Human Services

Introduced in the House

Feb. 15, 2017

Introduced by Rep. Edward Canfield (R-84)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2017-2018 Department of Health Human Services budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 3, 2017

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 17, 2017

Passed in the House 63 to 44 (details)

To pass and send to the Senate a version of this budget that contains no actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 4313 and 4323.

Received in the Senate

May 18, 2017

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 23, 2017

Passed in the Senate 26 to 12 (details)

To pass and send back to the House a version of this budget that contains no actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 4313 and 4323.

Received in the House

May 23, 2017

May 24, 2017

Failed in the House 0 to 107 (details)

June 8, 2017

Received

Sept. 6, 2017

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations