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HF2782Introduced in the House

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

Passed

Introduced by Appropriations

What does this bill do?

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Official description

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

Where it stands

Item vetoed, signed by Governor. H.J. 1174.

June 2, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

3 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

SenateStage: Shall the bill pass? · May 2, 2026

30

Yes

14

No

6

Absent or Not Voting

50 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

Bill history

  1. Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar. H.J. 955.

  2. NOBA: House Full Approps

  3. Amendment H-8461 filed. H.J. 1078.

  4. Amendment H-8465 to amendment H-8461, yeas 24, nays 59, filed, lost. H.J. 1078.

  5. Amendment H-8466 filed. H.J. 1079.

  6. Point of order raised on amendment H-8466 to amendment H-8461, ruled not germane. H.J. 1079.

  7. Motion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-8466 to amendment H-8461, yeas 25, nays 58. H.J. 1079.

  8. Motion to suspend rules failed. H.J. 1080.

  9. Amendment H-8461 adopted. H.J. 1080.

  10. Passed House, yeas 59, nays 24. H.J. 1080.

  11. Immediate message. H.J. 1081.

  12. Message from House. S.J. 963.

  13. Read first time, attached to SF 2483. S.J. 963.

  14. Substituted for SF 2483. S.J. 964.

  15. Passed Senate, yeas 30, nays 14. S.J. 965.

  16. Immediate message. S.J. 966.

  17. Message from Senate. H.J. 1111.

  18. NOBA: House Floor

  19. Reported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor. H.J. 1164.

  20. NOBA: Final

  21. Item vetoed, signed by Governor. H.J. 1174.

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