Otter signs two dozen bills into law, including restoration of Medicaid dental benefits
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter signed more than two dozen bills into law today, many of them non-controversial. Among the more notable ones: HB 395 will restore non-emergency adult dental services under the Medicaid program, a program that was cut in 2011 with disastrous results, as the state’s emergency room costs soared and people with disabilities lost teeth or suffered painful and expensive abscesses and infections. The bill passed the House 62-6 and the Senate 23-8.
Also among today’s bills signed into law: SB 1224a, reforming the state’s behavioral health services; and SB 1339, modifying the existing Purple Heart recipient special license plate to make it available for motorcycles as well.